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EXTERIOR OF KING'S CHAPEL, Dec. 15, 1886. 



THE COMMEMORATION 

BY 

KING'S CHAPEL, BOSTON, 

OF THE 

Completion of Ct»o l^untireD gear^ 

S/JVC£: ITS FOUNDATIONS, 
On Wednesday, December 15, 1886. 



THREE HISTORICAL SERMONS. 



WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. 



BOSTON: 

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 

1887. 



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(Hnibftsitg ^xtss: 

John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



The decorations employed in the celebration are in part 
reproduced in the illustrations of this volume. They are partly 
taken from the Rev. Mr. Foote's " Annals of King's Chapel ; " 
while for the portraits the Committee are also indebted to the 
courtesy of Messrs. Ticknor and Company, publishers of the 
" Memorial History of Boston ; " to the owners of those which 
have been specially photographed for this volume; and to 
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, and to Mr. Justin 
Winsor, publishers and editor of the "Narrative and Critical 
History of America," for permission to use that of Lieutenant- 
Governor Dummer from the fifth volume of that work. The 
drawing of the exterior arrangement of flags is made by Mr. J. 
Templeman Coolidge, 3d, for this volume. The cut on page 2, 
representing the church when it was approached by several steps, 
before Tremont Street had been filled in to a uniform level, and 
before the balustrade on the roof had been removed, is enlarged 
from one by Abel Bowen about 1833. The die on the cover 
is copied from one impressed on " Bridgman's King's Chapel 
Epitaphs," and is taken from a picture painted for the Rev. Mr. 
Greenwood about 1830. It shows not only the church but the 
burial-ground as it then appeared, before a desecrating hand had 
removed the gravestones from the graves to which they belonged. 

Boston, March, 1887. 



CONTENTS. 



Prclitntnarg ^roccetiings. 



PAGE 



Action of the Proprietors of King's Chapel ... 3 
Committee appointed by the Wardens and Vestry 

OF King's Chapel 3 

Report of Committee 4 

Committees appointed 6 

Invitations and Arrangements 6 



f^i'starfcal Sermons. 

Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, preached Dec. 5, 1886 . 11 
» „ „ „ preached Dec. 12, 1886 . 34 



CTommcmorattbe Serbtccs. 

Programme 

Commemorative Services 



53 

69 

Address of Welcome, by William Minot, Esq. ... 75 



Religious Services 



76 



VI CONTENTS. 

PAGB 

Address of the Minister 80 

„ „ Governor Robinson 89 

„ „ Rev. George Edward Ellis, D.D., LL.D. 96 

„ „ Rev. George A. Gordon 105 

*„ „ President Charles William Eliot, LL.D. 109 

„ „ Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D 112 

„ „ Rev. John Hopkins Morison, D.D. . . . 122 

Address and Poem by Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D.D. 128 

Poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., LL.D. D.CL. 131 

Address of Prof. Andrew Preston Peabody, D.D., LL.D. 134 

Address of Prof. Francis Greenwood Peabody . . 138 

(!rorr£spon"tience. 

From Official Persons and other Invited Guests . 145 

From Descendants of the Church 148 

From Clergymen le^ 

CTIastnrj Sfrman. 

Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, preached Dec. 19, 1886 . 167 



Index lo^ 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PAGE 

"^Exterior of the Church, 1886 Frontispiece 

'^ King's Chapel in 1833 2 

Card of Invitation 6 

Royal Arms 7 

Interior of the Church, 1886 8 

Earliest King's Chapel, 1687 53 

First Page of the Earliest Record Book .... 54 

Pulpit, 1717 55 

^Autograph of Rev. Robert Ratcliffe (it^ 

Facsimile of Flags in Exterior Decoration ... 69 

'^Escutcheons used in the Decoration 71 

Portrait of Governor Joseph Dudley 86 

^ „ „ Mrs. Rebecca (Tyng) Dudley .... 98 

V- „ „ Governor William Burnet no 

/ „ „ Governor Jonathan Belcher . . . . 122 

V ,j „ Lieut.-Governor William Dummer . . 130 

/ „ „ Governor Thomas Pownall 146 

/ „ „ Governor Thomas Hutchinson .... 158 

v/ „ „ Peter Faneuil, Esquire 170 

y „ „ Rev. James Freeman 182 



PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS. 




KING'S CHAPEL IN 1833. 



PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS. 



AT the annual meeting of the Proprietors of King's 
Chapel in Boston, held April 26, 1886, the Senior 
Warden, Arthur T. Lyman, Esq., laid before the meeting 
a communication from the Minister in relation to having 
appropriate notice taken of the 15th June, as the two 
hundredth anniversary of the organization of this church, 
by putting up a memorial thereof, or otherwise. The 
subject was referred to the Wardens and Vestry, with 
full powers. 

At a meeting of the Wardens and Vestry, May 2, 
1886, the following gentlemen were appointed a Com- 
mittee to take action in regard to such anniversary: 

William Perkins. Greelv S. Curtis. 

John Revere. Patrick T. Jackson. 

George Higginson. J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr. 

This Committee subsequently reported, at the meet- 
ing of the Wardens and Vestry, held Nov. 18, 1886, as 
follows : — 



KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 



REPORT. 



The Wardens and Vestry having appointed a committee 
to report to them a plan for the proper Commemoration 
of the Two Hundredth Year of Church Life of King's 
Chapel, — which was founded June 15, 1686, and cele- 
brated its first communion service on the second Sabbath 
of August, 1686, — the following is proposed : ■ — 

It having been impracticable in the midsummer season 
of general dispersion to gather our whole congregation for 
a service which is of universal interest to them, it was 
thought best to defer the Commemoration until this time. 
It is now recommended that Wednesday, December 15, be 
fixed as the day for such a service, and that these arrange- 
ments be made for its fit observance : — 

1. A committee of the Vestry, increased by a number 
of young and active members of the congregation, to carry 
out the necessary details. 

2. Invitations to be sent to all persons now or formerly 
connected with the church, so far as they can be ascer- 
tained ; to ministers of the older churches and leading per- 
sons in the city ; and to such others as may be deemed best. 

3. The service to consist of special music by a large 
choir, and of addresses by the following persons : — 

The Governor, as the successor of eight Royal Gover- 
nors who worshipped here ; 

The following persons who vv^ere born into and brought 
up in King's Chapel, namely : — 

The President of Harvard College ; 

Rev. Dr. James Freeman Clarke ; 

Rev. Francis Greenwood Peabody; 

Rev. Dr. Farley, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 

Rev. Dr. Thayer, of Ne\vport, R. I. ; and others ; 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 5 

Members of the present congregation ; as Rev. Dr. 
Peabody and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes ; 

The Minister of the Old South Church, in remem- 
brance of its special connection with our history ; 

A Representative of the Episcopal Church, of 
which King's Chapel was the mother-church in New 
England. 

4, It is also recommended that some social meeting 
for the evening of the same day be arranged for, if 
practicable. 

5. To perpetuate the remembrance of this historic 
occasion, it is recommended that a design be obtained, 
and a bronze or marble tablet or monument placed in the 
church, marking the special connection of King's Chapel 
with the early history of this country, and recording some 
of the names of those associated with the parish in its 
pre-Revolutionary history. 

For the Committee. 

William Perkins, 

Chairman. 

The Wardens and Vestry accordingly 

" Voted, That Rev. Henry W. Foote be added to the 
original Committee ; and that the Committee be author- 
ized to increase their number to sixteen by the addition of 
gentlemen connected with the parish, — the Committee so 
enlarged to be empowered to make all the arrangements 
necessary for the proper celebration, on Wednesday the 
fifteenth day of December, on the completion of two 
hundred years since the foundation of this parish ; and 
that they are also authorized, if deemed expedient, to pre- 
pare a Memorial Volume, containing the addresses made 
at the celebration, and other historic matters connected 
therewith." 



6 king's chapel, boston. 

The Committee proceeded accordingly to add to their 
number the following gentlemen: 

J. Templeman Coolidge, 3d. Francis C. Lowell. 

Edward S. Grew. George R. Minot. 

Thomas B. Hall. Thomas Minns. 

Horace A. Lamb. Charles E. Sampson. 

A. Lawrence Lowell. Roger Wolcott. 

They also appointed the following Sub-Committees, 
namely : — 

On Speakers and Order of Exercises. 

Henry W. Foote. Greely S. Curtis. 

A. Lawrence Lowell. 

On Music and Decorations. 

J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr. Greely S. Curtis. 

J. Templeman Coolidge, 3d. Horace A. Lamb. 

George R. Minot. 

On Invitations, Tickets, and Printing. 

Thomas B. Hall. Thomas Minns. 

Francis C Lowell. Roger Wolcott. 

Henry W. Foote. 

On Expenses. 

George Higginson. Edward S. Grew. 

Charles E. Sampson. 

On Memorial Volume. 

Henry W. Foote. Patrick T. Jackson. 

Thomas Minns. 

Invitations to the Commemoration were extended to 
a large number of ministers of the older churches in 
Massachusetts of different denominations ; to ministers of 
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the American Revolution, and to other clergymen of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in Massachusetts and else- 
where ; to various bishops and ministers, Protestant and 
Roman Catholic ; to the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, 
and other officials of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; 
to the Mayor of Boston, and many other prominent citi- 
zens ; to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London, 
and, as far as they could be ascertained, to representatives 
in this generation of families formerly belonging to the 
parish, and to others who themselves have been at any 
time connected with it. 

Admission to the church was necessarily by ticket only ; 
and it was filled to its fullest capacity through the whole 
of the services. 




(Formerly hung over the door of the 
Province House.) 



HISTORICAL SERMONS 



ON THE OCCASION OF THE 



Completion of Ctoo J^unDreD gear^ 



SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF 



KING'S CHAPEL, BOSTON. 



BY REV. HENRY WILDER FOOTE. 



HISTORICAL SERMONS. 



Thus saith the Lord God : I will also take of the highest 

BRANCH OF THE HIGH CEDAR, AND WILL SET IT ; I WILL CROP OFF 
FROM THE TOP OF HIS YOUNG TWIGS A TENDER ONE, AND WILL 
PLANT IT UPON AN HIGH MOUNTAIN AND EMINENT: In THE MOUN- 
TAIN OF THE HEIGHT OF ISRAEL WILL I PLANT IT; IT SHALL BRING 
FORTH BOUGHS, AND BEAR FRUIT, AND BE A GOODLY CEDAR. — 
Ezekiel, xvii. 22, 23. 

/^N Wednesday, the 15th of this month, we shall 
^-^^ mark with fitting celebration the fact that this 
is the two hundredth year since the beginning of 
this church. It is not, indeed, the day itself in the 
year ; for the proper foundation time of the church 
fell in that fair season of the twelvemonth when, in 
1686, men found Boston a pleasant place by the 
water-side to abide in, — as now they find it a place 
to flee from ; as when the First Church, the 
mother of all the religious life of this good city, 
six years ago kept its two hundred and fiftieth an- 
niversary, its minister had to say : " We can plead 
as apologies for our delay only those habits of mod- 
ern life, even in our Northern city, which make a 
midsummer gathering all but impossible." There 






12 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

are, indeed, several birthdays for us in that year 
1686, — according as we mark the day when the first 
reHgious service of the infant congregation was held, 
May 20; or that of the first meeting for organiza- 
tion, June 15 ; or July 4, when that organization was 
completed, by a strange coincidence anticipating the 
birthday of America; or the 2d of August, which 
I like best to think of as the true foundation day 
of the church, the day when the first celebration 
of the Lord's Supper was held, according to the 
reverend usage which was preparing a home for 
itself here among the Puritan community. 

The great festival of our College has lately re- 
minded us of the plain yet heroic beginnings out of 
which New England sprang. The history of the 
beginnings of this ancient church brings to remem- 
brance another chapter of the annals of our country, 
equally worthy to be kept fi-om oblivion, it seems to 
me, and which interweaves, like a thread of gold in 
cloth of sober russet, elements of light and color 
and warmth in the narrative which had long been a 
stranger to them, as it brings the great power and 
presence of England, our mother-country, into visible 
authority in this Colony of Massachusetts Bay. 

The recent years have been thickly studded with 
commemorations of the foundation of successive 
churches and towns in this old commonwealth, 
which filled the eventful years from 1620 to 1640. 
In them all, it is always the Puritan idea and the 
Puritan founders that are brought into fresh and 
deserved honor. King's Chapel stands alone in that 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 13 

first century, in setting forth another side of the 
story, — a side historical and of deep reHgious sig- 
nificance, as well as most picturesque in"" its con- 
trasts. Yet we shall best be able to understand 
this if we try first of all to put ourselves into under- 
standing and sympathetic relations with the condi- 
tions of the community where our church planted 
itself two centuries aeo. 

The great corner-stone on which the New Eng- 
land polity rested, — and still rests, — is the thought 
that God rules. Not only that He has ruled in the 
past, that He made the world, or that He saved the 
world, but that He is so intensely present that all 
things in the comparison with Him verily cease to 
exist. It is the faith that He is the God of the 
moral world not less than of the physical world, a 
legislator of whom it is not less true that His lau^ 
can be understood and applied by men than it is 

that the forces of Nature silently do His will, 

with the difference that His children can serve 
Him intelligently, "hearkening unto the voice of 
His- word." In this faith, with its double conse- 
quence concerning the individual and concerning 
government, lies wrapped up the history of New 
England, — that is to say, really, the history of 
America. It may fitly be called a religious history; 
it is a story possessed by the conviction of the 
Ruling God. It stands before posterity to speak 
for itself by the type of character which it moulded, 
by the strength of faith through which it wrought, 
by its works for men and for God. 



14 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

Those fathers of New England justify the claim 
which is made for them on our pride and loyalty, 
by the great ideas which they left to their posterity 
as seed-grain for the world's great harvest of faith 
and hope. In the days when the first James and 
Charles were harrying them out of England, they 
sought beyond the sea to embody their mighty vision, 
— the ideal of a Christian Commonwealth, in which 
God should be King and Judge; and although they 
erred in trying to follow too literally the antique pat- 
tern, and could not well see how to gain the spirit 
without literal copying of the letter, the Living 
Spirit of the Living God had descended mightily 
upon them and possessed them, so that they " builded 
better than they knew." Not caring to be rich, or 
wise, or famous, if only they might serve the Lord 
with a pure and acceptable worship, " all these things 
were added unto them " and to their children. Grand 
and honored forms of the past, they stand forth from 
the shadows that have closed around and hide so 
much from us, — the founders of a new age. 
Ouaint-Q:arbed fathers of the New Ensfland of to- 
day, in doublet and cloak, with steeple-crowned hat 
and solemn mien, we can easily seem to see them 
once more walking the streets of the little town, as 
citizens of another country, " even an heavenly," 
and dwellers in "a city whose founder and builder 
is God." 

Even their children cannot claim that the Puri- 
tans were perfect men ; and they themselves would 
be farthest from claiming it. But they were colossal, 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 15 

— not smooth men, but scarred and weather-beaten 
by great encounters with enemies seen and unseen. 
" Paint me," said Cromwell to Sir Peter Lely, "as I 
am ; " and the very warts on that heroic face were 
set down on the canvas for posterity to look upon. 
The Puritan can well afford to be painted as he was. 
He who was so severe with himself could be very 
rigid with others also. He found his conscience a 
hard master, — the penances it imposed often more 
grievous than hair shirts or flagellations ; and if his 
conscience burdened him, it did not seem unfittino- 
that it should rule others also with a rod of iron. 
Such men as these would have found us difficult to 
tolerate, and we should probably have shrunk from 
before their terrible presence. 

Never, surely, did men take in hand so bold a 
work, — say, rather, so trustful a work, — as did that 
first generation of Englishmen here, of whom " ac- 
cording to the flesh " our ancestors, their children, 
came. To us what they did looks so venerable, — 
its success is so vindicated by its issues, — that we 
often fail to realize the greatness of soul, the supreme 
faith in the Invisible God of Righteousness, which 
was needed to go behind the triple wall of form 
and court and established church, with its ritual 
and authority, to the wells of living water in the 
Scripture and to the present help of the Lord of 
Hosts. They aimed to build their tabernacle " in 
all things after the pattern showed them in the 
mount;" and if they sometimes followed Moses 
rather than Christ, the Eternal Spirit who also 



1 6 king's chapel, boston. 

spake to Moses was able to outlast the Old Testa- 
ment in their dispensation, and to prepare the way 
for the coming of the New. 

It is often, in these days, made a reproach to the 
Puritans that they wanted none here of any way of 
thinking save their own, — as if they had set up to 
be the fathers of what Roger Williams calls " soul- 
liberty," and then had deserted their principle. 
But they neither sought nor claimed nor desired 
what is called liberty of thought, in the modern 
sense of the word. They had come hither, at the 
cost of infinite peril and hardship, to escape from 
earthly masters, but not at all in order that they 
might be left free to their own devices. They sought 
liberty from the earthly masters only that they might 
freely give up to the Heavenly their own wills, — 
yea, their own minds, acknowledging God as having 
eminent domain over all. They believed that they 
had in tlie Scriptures such a revelation from Him 
that they could safely appeal to that infallible Law 
for direction in the minutest particulars of life, and 
in the greatest; nor was there any difference to 
them between one part and another part, but all 
were equally binding, — the regulations of Leviticus, 
as much as the precepts of Christ. 

The world has since attained a wiser conception 
than theirs of the inspiration of the Holy Book; 
we have a more spiritual insight into its true 
meaning, and a better discrimination between its 
various parts. But we may well ask ourselves the 
very searching question, whether we have as living 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 7 

a conviction of the Living God present with us, 
searching, knowing, upholding us, as they had, — 
whether we find it as natural to turn to Him for 
light and strength as they did. We may deem them 
illogical, shutting up the Divine Being as they did 
within the contents of the Book of Books, and yet 
combining with this even Bibliolatry such intense 
faith in the God who is the Father of our spirits, 
" God over all, blessed forever." Nevertheless, this 
they did; and in bequeathing to their children this 
supreme trust, they left us the truth of truths, 
the mightiest of inspirations and powers whether 
for our personal or our national life. And being 
willing to submit themselves to this Divine code 
of laws, in which they believed that the Ruler of 
the universe had given them "a sufficient rule of 
faith and practice," they expected others who came 
after them to this bleak corner of the world to 
do likewise. 

A religion so intensely earnest, so severely simple, 
must needs have fashioned for itself an outward 
order quite other than that of the mother-church 
and the mother-land which these men had left, — 
shaped by it only by reaction. We are in part 
familiar with this in the congregational order of 
ritual to-day, yet only in a softened guise, and with 
many adornments on which the primitive founders 
would have looked darkly. What, then, was that 
form of worship which that early generation of 
Boston Puritans had wrought out for themselves, 
— not wholly like any other? Let me quote the 

3 



i8 king's chapel, boston. 

sympathetic description of it by the Rev. Dr. Rufus 
Ellis: — 

" The little congregation had no need to fashion any 
ritual. They found it only too delicious to pray as the 
Spirit gave them utterance. They will not have even 
the Bible read in the course of their worship, unless it is 
expounded, and the truths brought into the light by the 
Divine blessing upon a living ministry. They will have 
none of what they called * dumb reading.' 

" What were styled ' conceived,' or as we say ex tempore, 
prayers had been allowed them in their old church only 
grudgingly and in very stinted measure. Here there shall 
be no other prayers, — not though it were the Lord's Prayer, 
which had been so misused as a pater nostcr and by vain 
repetitions. They would have no white surplice with Romish 
priests, but would minister in the scholar's black gown of 
Geneva. It seemed to them a mere formality, and too 
much like the genuflections of the old superstition, to 
bow the head at the name of Jesus, though none could 
exceed them in their reverence for that Holy One. Like 
the early disciples, they would gather about the sacramental 
table rather than kneel about the altar, lest haply men 
should say, ' they worship the bread and the wine.' They 
•will have no funeral prayers, but will bear their dead to the 
last resting-place and lay them away in touching silence, 
lest they should be thought to pray for the departed spirit 
and say masses in the ancient manner. They will not only 
lay aside the marriage ring as heathenish, but by a strange 
revulsion they will have marriage a civil service, to be per- 
formed, not by the minister, but by a magistrate. They 
cannot quite refuse to sing, — but there shall be no instru- 
ment save the human voice, and such rough psalmody as 
was supplied to the Puritans of Amsterdam by Henry 
Ainsworth ; their tunes, some ten in number, oftenest 
York, Hackney, Windsor, St. Mary, and St, Martyn's." 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 9 

Such was the type of worship which the God- 
fearine Puritans had elaborated in this far corner of 
the world. Meantime, great events had swept over 
the Old World which they had left. Charles I. had 
died upon the block, to answer for the oppressions 
which drove them forth. The Commonwealth of 
Eno-land had risen and fallen. The son of Charles 
Stuart was back upon the throne, with no love m 
his heart for the men in England or here who had 
done that work upon his father. 

Meantime, the generation had gone of those who 
knew the Old England, — Winthrop, Thomas Dud- 
ley, Wilson, Cotton, — some of the noblest of the 
earth; and fifty years had hardened this primitive 
community into fixed conditions. 

That people we can easily picture to ourselves, 
from the abundant though not over friendly descrip- 
tions which have survived from the pens of not very 
sympathetic visitors to this distant shore. Indeed, 
I cannot but think that we their descendants have 
enough of them survivino^ in us to make it easier, 
one would suppose, than it sometimes seems to be, 
to reproduce their likeness out of our own conscious- 
ness. A fixed and resolute race, — the English iron 
tempered to steel by the struggle with the untamed 
nature of the wilderness, the hardships of the first 
fifty years of life here before the climate was under- 
stood, the rugged world civilized and softened, the 
comforts of fireside and food fairly won. The law of 
the " survival of the fittest " had worked with all its 
merciless severity, and left only the toughest in body 



20 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

and mind, — those who would not yield to the New 
England winter, and were not likely to yield one jot 
beyond necessity to Old England's dictation. A re- 
ligious Emigration, they carried in themselves the 
seeds of a sacred contentiousness, which contained 
the germs, though long repressed, of the sects which 
have enriched our annals with more varieties of Pro- 
testantism than Bossuet included in his great work 
on that subject. 

Already, in the first generation, the vision of ab- 
solute religious unity was rudely dispelled by the 
sharp strifes evoked by Mrs. Hutchinson, the ear- 
liest representative of Women's Rights ; and Rhode 
Island was found a much needed and salutary 
safety-valve for the explosive ecclesiastical elements. 
Roger Williams and Gorton were free at that dis- 
tance to work out their theories, but could come no 
nearer to mar the peace of Israel. The second gen- 
eration saw multiplying elements of discord, — the 
Quaker, shrieking denunciations of the " priests of 
Baal " in the steeple-houses, lashed to the cart's tail, 
hung from the Boston Elm ; the Baptist, breaking 
the ice of strong hostility to administer the waters, 
his saving ordinance. Nor was there perfect har- 
mony within the bosom of the churches themselves. 
The Second Church, which was afterwards illumi- 
nated by the ministry of the Mathers, — father, son, 
and grandson, — had indeed grown peacefully out 
of the First Church. But the Third, which we 
call the Old South, was the monument of a bitter 
strife — the controversy which convulsed the whole 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 21 

colony for years — concerning the proper subjects 
for infant baptism. 

On one point, however, the elements most mutu- 
ally hostile were agreed, — that is, in their feeling 
of dislike and fear of the Church of Enoland. 
Much as they might be opposed to each other, the 
widest fissure between them was not so deep but 
that it would close up solidly if the faintest tremor 
of that approaching earthquake shook the ground. 
Randolph wrote to the Bishop of London, 1682: 
*' There was a great difference between the old 
church and the members of the new church about 
baptisme, and their members joining in full commu- 
nion with either church ; this was soe high that 
there was imprisoning of parties and great disturb- 
ances ; but now, heereing of my proposals for minis- 
ters to be sent over, . . . they are now joyned to- 
gether, about a fortnight ago, and pray to God to 
confound the devices of all who disturbe their peace 
and liberties." Nor is this strange. The Episco- 
palian who wonders at it to-day is no more like the 
type which Randolph represented and which the 
Puritans hated and dreaded, than is the Quaker, 
who represents some of the gentlest and purest ele- 
ments in our social life, like the wild figures clad 
in sackcloth, or in the less substantial garments of 
our first parents before the Fall, whose prophesy- 
ings were known by the same name. To every New 
Englander, the English Church stood for a spiritual 
tyranny which had driven the fathers out into the 
wilderness ; in practice a corruption of the simplicity 



22 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

of the Scriptural rule; its hierarchy contrary to the 
gospel ; its book of prayer idolatrous ; its adhe- 
rents a worldly element demoralizing to the best 
welfare of New England, — to be kept out if it 
could be done; if not, at least to be prohibited 
from practising their empty form of religionism 
on the Lord's day, and to be held under the 
watch and ward of the Congregational churches in 
hopes to regenerate them in a purer way. Nor was 
it only the ancient grievance against Archbishop 
Laud which smarted in memory. No one could tell 
how far, but they feared very far, the Church and 
State religion of Charles IL was identical in policy 
and principle with that of Charles L They knew 
well what happened to Scotch Covenanters and to 
English Puritans, and had no reason for confidence 
in their own exemption from the same measure. 
Moreover, the English Church and the English 
State were identical. The representatives of the 
one would look after the interests of the other; 
and the tower of King's Chapel, if such a place 
should once be built, would be, with its gilt mitre 
and crown, a very short distance from the head of 
Long Wharf, with the royal flag flying above a 
custom-house. Those who are disturbed because 
the Massachusetts people liked their commercial 
independence better than paying duties as loyal 
subjects of Great Britain, forget that there may be 
an honest difference of opinion regarding the powers 
conferred by the charter of Charles L As the Puri- 
tans viewed it, this was practically independence. 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 23 

On that they had acted for fifty years ; and only the 
force of the stronger could modify their action. 

The point which the ruling influences here for- 
got, however, at the time which we are considering, 
was the very important fact that new elements had 
now come in among them, to a considerable degree 
modifying the tone if not ^the community at least 
ill the community. The American process had be- 
gun, which we see in our own day (and not wholly 
to our liking), by which there is perpetually going 
on a transfusion of alien manners, customs, ways of 
thought and life into the spirit of our people. Even 
in our own time the process, though inevitable, is 
not gracefully accepted by us. The New England 
fathers saw clearly enough that all this tended 
toward a profound modification, if not extinction, 
of the idea on which New England was founded. 
But the other elements were here to some extent, 
and they had come to stay, — Englishmen who felt 
that they had a right to come to an English colony, 
and who probably felt themselves better than the 
people whom they found here, from the very fact 
that they did not enjoy the type of religious min- 
istrations which were dear to the New England 
heart. Lechford and Josselyn, a few years before, 
illustrate their state of mind. It did not make 
them more acceptable in the Puritan town that 
they had come to make money, and not for con- 
science' sake. But here they were, with clear pref- 
erences for the Church of England ritual in which 
they had been born and bred. They went to meet- 



24 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

ing, as the whole population did, and must, under 
law. But a sort of silent protest must have been 
felt in their presence, though they probably rarely 
ventured to show it as frankly as did Mrs. Ran- 
dolph in 1682, when, sitting with her husband in 
Mr. Joyliffe's pew in the South Meeting-house, she 
was observed to " make a curtesy at the name of 
Jesus, even in prayer-time." 

How many there were of this way of thinking it is 
impossible for us to discern through the mists of time. 
Randolph estimated the number of disaffected very 
high, — at four-fifths of the population ; he also wrote 
home to the Bishop of London, after the Church of 
England had been set up here, that there was a 
congregation of four hundred. But his figures on 
all subjects are untrustworthy, unless we can check 
them from other sources of information ; nor does 
he say how large a proportion was composed of 
"boys and negros," who until the Revolution consti- 
tuted so large a part of the congregation of King's 
Chapel as to require a special officer to " look after " 
them, and whose " looking after " doubtless required 
pretty energetic measures of repression, — not very 
godly or profitable worshippers. The Records of 
King's Chapel contain no clear indication of the 
numbers of the congregation; I judge from them, 
however, that at first only a few persons of influ- 
ence were willing to risk the obnoxious step of iden- 
tifying themselves with the planting of the English 
Church here. Under the sunshine of Sir Edmund 
Andros the church blossomed into prosperity, but 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 25 

at his downfall the Puritans exulted in the thought 
that it had withered to the root. 

These then were the elements that awaited the 
loss of the charter which befell at last in October, 
1684, after nearly twenty years' threatening, — on 
one side agonized fear, on the other eager hope, 
that a spiritual domination, which was according 
to the point of the view beneficent or blasting, 
would be overthrown. The central figure in all 
this commotion is, of course, Edward Randolph. 

Two years before the charter was annulled, and 
four years before the arrival here of the Rev. Rob- 
ert Ratcliffe the first Church of England minister, 
Randolph had written to the Bishop of London, 
reminding him that " In my attendance on your 
lordship, I often exprest that some able ministers 
might be appoynted to performe the officies of the 
church with us. The main obstacle was (as might 
be supposed) how^ they should be maintayned." 

Before any question of the mode of his support 
was settled, the minister himself arrived, — a long 
delayed blessing, — May 15, 1686. Nearly four years 
before, Randolph had written to the Bishop, " The 
very report [that your lordship hath remembered us 
and sent over a minister] hath given great satisfaction 
to many hundreds whose children are not baptized, 
and to as many who never, since they came out of 
England, received the sacraments." The cause of 
the delay till a year and a half after the charter 
was annulled, was the death of Charles II. and the 
changes consequent thereon. 

4 



26 king's chapel, boston. 

Mr. Ratcliffe came in the " Rose " frigate, with 
Captain George, the same officer who was captured 
by the people in the memorable rising against 
Andros in April, 1689, and the same ship which they 
compelled to surrender on that great day. They 
brought with them the commission to Joseph 
Dudley as President of Massachusetts, Maine, Nova 
Scotia, and the lands between. 

And now we approach the place which is des- 
tined to be the first cradle of our infant church, and 
the town-house of Boston becomes the scene of 
eventful things. We can look over SewaU's shoul- 
der as he writes in his little brown diary day by day, 
and can enter into the intense though suppressed 
feeling of tlie writer at the events which brought 
home to all the reality of the change which had 
come. We see Randolph hurrying up from Nantas- 
ket on the arrival of the " Rose " on Friday, May 14, 
so that he reaches town by 8 a. m., and posting by 
coach to Roxbury to notify Major Dudley of his 
new dignity. We see the dignitaries whom Dudley 
has summoned to Captain Paige's, assuring their 
own eyes that it is really so, as they see " the Exem- 
plification of the judgment against the Charter, with 
the Broad Seal affixed," and that it is hopeless to 
resist. The Sabbath intervenes, — a dark day for 
the New Englanders. Randolph and his family sit 
meekly in a pew at the South Meeting-house, and 
hear Mr. Willard pray, " not for the Governor or 
Government as formerly, but speak so as implies it 
to be changed or changing." On Monday the Gen- 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 2'] 

eral Court sits at the town-house to hear their fate. 
" The Old Government," writes Sewall, " draws to 
the north side ; Mr. Addington, Captain Smith, and 
I sit at the Table, there not being room ; Major Dud- 
ley the President, Major Pynchon, Captain Gedney, 
Mr. Mason, Mr. Randolph, Captain Winthrop, Mr. 
Wharton, come in on the Left — Mr. Stoughton I 
left out. Came also Captain [of] King's Frigate, 
Gov^ Hinkley, Gov! West, and sate on the Bench; 
and the Room pretty well filled with Spectators in 
an instant. Major Dudley made a Speech, that was 
sorry could treat them no longer as Government 
Company ; Produced the Exemplification of the 
Charters Condemnation, the Commission under the 
Broad Seal of England — both, . . . openly exhibiting 
them to the People ; when had done. Deputy Gov- 
ernor said suppos'd they expected not the Court's 
Answer now, which the President took up and said 
they could not acknowledge them as such, and could 
no way capitulate with them ; to which I think no 
Reply. When gone . . . spake our Minds. I chose 
to say after the Major Generall, adding that the 
foundations being destroyed, what can the Righteous 
do, — speaking against a Protest, which some spake 
for." 

The dramatic close of this episode falls on the 
Friday following, when Sewall found the magistrates 
and deputies not at the town-house, but at the 
Governor's. " Mr. Nowell prayed that God would 
pardon each Magistrate and Deputy's Sin. Thanked 
God for our hithertos of Mercy fifty-six years, in 



28 king's chapel, boston. 

which time sad calamities elsewhere, as Massacre 
Piedmont ; thanked God for what we might expect 
from sundry of those now set over us. I moved to 
sing, so sung the if^ and iS'!" verses of Habakkuk." 
That touching and sublime expression of trust, 
which declares that " although the fig-tree shall not 
blossom, and the laborer of the olive shall fail, . . . 
yet I will rejoice in the Lord," was the expiring cry 
of the old New England theocracy. No wonder 
that as they saw the edifice of the fathers go down 
in ruins, "Many Tears were shed in Prayer and 
parting." Yet they expired with faith upon their 
lips. 

But while the old glory thus withdrew its vanish- 
ing skirts from the noteworthy building which had 
seen the Government of Massachusetts administered 
under the charter by able and resolute lovers of the 
old New England way, the echoes of unfamiliar 
sounds in this Puritan air had already been heard 
within those walls; for on the Tuesday of that week, 
by whose authority we are not told, " Prayer was had 
at the Town House," — the first public administra- 
tion of the English Church since the colony began. 
And the same day saw Mr. Ratcliffe marry a couple 
" according to the Service Book," and that, too, with 
a ring, which they borrowed. But another Sunday 
passed, before the formal application was made for 
due recognition of the church established hy law in 
Great Britain. One would like to know where Mr. 
Ratcliffe went to meeting that day, or if he broke 
the strict Sabbath-keeping laws and stayed at home. 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 29 

On Wednesday, however, May 26, " Mr. Ratcliffe, 
the minister, waits on the Council ; Mr. Mason and 
Randolph propose that he may have one of the three 
Houses to preach in. That is deny'd, and he is 
granted the East-End of the Town House, where the 
Deputies used to meet, untill those who desire his 
Ministry shall provide a fitter place." 

We can look around the Council board and see 
by the records who were present to consider this 
request, — Dudley, Stoughton, Fitz John and Wait 
Winthrop, Pynchon, Dudley, Wharton, Gedney, and 
E. Tyng. We may well regret that Sewall was not 
a councillor, and that no record is preserved of that 
scene, — the gloom and hesitation on the brow of 
the majority of the Council, determined to oppose as 
far as they can, yet afraid to oppose too far, and 
troubled by the thought that there is one among 
them who will report everything at home in Eng- 
land. If you will look at the portrait of William 
Stoucrhton, in the Memorial Hall of Harvard Col- 
lege, painted in his old age, you will perhaps think 
with me that the pinched and worried expression 
dates from this anxious moment. Mason and Ran- 
dolph, however, are triumphant. 

Dudley is full of perplexity. He knows well that 
if he favors one inch of concession he will lose his 
last hold on the people, who distrust him ; that if 
he does not, he will offend Randolph, — and he dares 
not kick away that ladder of his fortune. He still 
wears the long straight Puritan hair and has the 
Puritan cast of face. The day will come when he 



30 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

will return from England to be Governor, with huge 
wig and the look of a man of the world ; but he has 
not yet emerged from the chrysalis. 

A good and honest bearing, and that of an Eng- 
lish gentleman, is that of Rev. Robert Ratcliffe, — "a 
sober, prudent gent, and well approved," wearing the 
long black cassock of his calling ; " a very Excellent 
Preacher, whose Matter was good, and the Dress in 
which he put it Extraordinary, he being as well an* 
Orator as a Preacher." In graceful, dignified speech 
he asks that the King's church may have a fit shel- 
ter in the King's most loyal colony, and then with- 
draws, while the debate is urged with hot and bitter 
words. 

And now turn from the debate on this all-enofross- 
ing subject, which must have thrilled from the town- 
house throughout the little town, and try to picture 
to yourselves the state of mind of the Puritans when 
they think how their one public building, the sym- 
bol and shelter of the highest authority of the Com- 
monwealth, is given up to this use, — the Puritan 
State taking, as it were, under the wing of its sanc- 
tion (though with an ill-grace) the representative of 
that which cast the fathers out from the mother- 
country! We are not left to imagination ; for one of 
them has outlined his feelings in his diary. Turn- 
ing to the left from the corner of Prison Lane, 
passing the Old Church as it looks grimly across 
the way at the new sight, leaving the porticoed 
town-house behind you, while a company of men 
and boys watches curiously to see if Mr. Ratcliffe 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 3 1 

will come in his surplice, or, like the ministers of 
the town, in Geneva gown and bands, — walk with 
me up " the Broad Street " (which took its later 
name from Washington's triumphal passage over it 
more than a century later), as it leads past the Third 
Meeting-house toward Roxbury. And now here is 
Captain Samuel Sewall's house ^ on "Seven Star 
Lane" (which we know as Summer Street), the 
. home which his wife had inherited from her father 
John Hull, the famous mint-master. On this mild 
May morning the window is left ajar, and we can 
hear the family prayers. An eight year old boy is 
reading. " My Son reads to me in course the 26'^ 
of Isaiah, — 'In that day shall this Song be sung,' 
etc. And we sing the 141" Psalm, both exceedingly 
suited to this day, wherein there is to be worship 
according to the Church of England, as 'tis called, 
in the Town-House, by Countenance of Authority." 
The psalm rises on the still air, in the rugged ver- 
sion of the Bay Psalm Book, to one of the old tunes 
which Sewall delighted to sing. " Set a watch, O 
Lord, before my mouth ; keep the door of my lips. 
. . . Incline not my heart ... to practise wicked 
works with men that work iniquity, and let me not 
eat of their dainties. When their judges are over- 

1 The letter from Dr. Estes Howe to Mr. Charles Deane, printed 
in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (second 
series, i. 312-326), demonstrates that Sewall resided here, and not 
in the house also owned by him, with casement of diamond panes 
set in lead, built by Sir Henry Vane, and where John Cotton once 
dwelt, " at a distance from other buildings and in winter very 
bleake," on the eastern slope of Beacon Hill, near our Pemberton 
Square of to-day. 



32 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

thrown in stony places, they shall hear my words. 
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that 
I escape." And then the father of the family prays, 
doubtless in a tone and strain whose keynote was 
sounded by the Scripture lesson. 

So was it, probably, in hundreds of old-fashioned 
Boston homes, as well as Sewall's, on that day when 
"worship according to the Church of England" was 
"in the Town House, by Countenance of Authority." 

Yet there were other Christian homes, religious 
and devout, which retained a fresher and more lov- 
ing memory of the hallowed usages of the mother- 
country, where those who had not breathed the New 
England air long enough to be weaned from Old 
Endand, and who did not share in the reverence 
for the usages of strict Puritanism or sympathize 
with much of its spirit, felt at last the loosening of 
bonds which had fretted them. To them those 
other words of the Scripture, which I have taken as 
my text, might well have seemed a gracious prophecy, 
as they saw a shoot from the stately Church of Eng- 
land set in the very high places of the Puritan Zion : 
"Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the 
hii^hest branch of the hio-h cedar, and will set it; I 
will crop off from the top his young twigs a tender 
one, and will plant it upon a high mountain and 
eminent; In the mountain of the height of Israel 
will I plant it : it shall bring forth boughs, and bear 
fruit, and be a goodly cedar." 

Before us to-day there wait in this communion 
service the sacred emblems of that life which was 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 7)3 

lived and died for all men, and which in passing in- 
to human history transfigured that history forever. 
Our thoughts of controversy and strife may have 
seemed to draw us far away from those which gather 
closest around the Lord's Table. Yet not wholly 
so ; for the very earnestness of the dispute showed 
that the hearts and souls of men were deeply en- 
gaged ; and every thought of faithfulness and of 
duty leads us straight to him from whom his follow- 
ers learn how conscience may inspire self-sacrifice, 
and how greater than whole burnt-offerings is a 
loving spirit. 



36 king's chapel, boston. 

been left to us by the fathers, we should all agree that 
neither sfothic roofs nor fronts of carven stone en- 
nobled it above its proper worth as the centre, not 
merely of a town history, but of the formation and 
crystallizing period of a great people ; and our 
Roland would typify not merely the commercial 
freedom of a city, but the imperial freedom of a 
nation. 

And yet, to the discerning eye, that primitive 
town-house had in its very homeliness and sim- 
plicity a truer fitness to the people who had built 
it, and whose convenience it served, than the state- 
liest edifice of Old World fame. As you stand at 
Salem in the little building of the First Church, — 
whose rude framework, rescued a few years ago from 
the barn in whose disguise it had been securely 
hidden for nearly two centuries, — and seem to 
hear those rough timbers, just squared with the 
broadaxe, echo the tones of Hugh Peter and Roger 
Williams, you feel that you are veritably in one of 
the incunabula gefittuin, — a place where a nation 
was cradled. 

So might you feel, in a measure also, if you were 
to be landino: with Rev. Robert Ratcliffe at this 
town of less than two thousand houses and eight 
thousand people, a third of them men trained to 
arms. The three hills, severally capped by a beacon, 
a windmill, and a fort; the houses clustered beneath 
them, close together along the shore, and farther 
back scattered among gardens; the busy " fairs," such 
as Josselyn saw them; and "on the south a small but 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 



Z7 



pleasant common, where the gallants, a little before 
sunset, walk with their marmalet-madams till the 
nine o'clock bell rings them home to their respec- 
tive habitations," — are a pleasant picture after a 
long voyage. " The buildings of Boston," said an 
impudent visitor, " like the women, are neat and 
handsome ; their streets, like the hearts of the male 
inhabitants, paved with pebbles." Up such a rough- 
shod way, the broad main street, you hobble, and 
soon come to the town-house, built with Captain 
Robert Keayne's legacy, " upon pillars, where the 
merchants may confer," a space only partially en- 
closed, while "in the chambers above they keep 
their monthly courts." With belfry and sun-dial 
and balcony and outside staircase, and stocks and 
pillory under its shadow, this is evidently the centre 
and heart of the town. A few steps away stands 
the mother church ; and two main arteries stretch 
off, one to the northern ferry over the Charles, the 
other to the south, "where the public gibbet creaked 
horribly in the wind, and the peninsula contracted 
to a narrow isthmus, over which passed the single 
great road from the metropolis. Tributary lanes, 
like rivulets, everywhere followed the natural con- 
formation of the ground." 

I spoke before of the opening act of the exciting 
drama, when Rev. Robert Ratcliffe stood before the 
council and obtained his petition for a place of wor- 
ship, they granting him the use of the library in 
the town-house till they who desire his ministrations 
shall provide a fitter place. 



38 king's chapel, boston. 

It was, however, another week before the worship 
was really held, as "a movable pulpit" had to be 
provided, " carried up and down stairs, as occasion 
serves." " It seems," says Sewall, " many crowded 
thither." On the 15th of June, 1686, a meeting for 
organization was held " by the members of the 
Church of England, as by law established under 
the gracious influence of the most illustrious Prince, 
our Sovereign Lord James the II., by the Grace of 
God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland 
king, defendour of the faith, etc., ... at Boston, 
within his said Majestie's territory and dominion of 
New England in America." It was here voted to 
send " an humble address " to the King " to implore 
his Majestie's favour to our church," and to write to 
the Archbishop of Canterbury and the BishojD of 
London. Also "Agreed, that Mr. Smith the joyner 
do make 12 formes for the service of the church, 
for each of which he shall be paid 4s. 8d. Agreed, 
with the said Mr. Smith the joyner, that this church 
will pay and allow unto him 20s. i^d. quarterlie, and 
every quarter, for and in consideration of his clean- 
ing, placing, and removing the pulpit, forms, table, 
etc., and doing all other things which shall be con- 
venient and necessary in our place of publique 
Assembling." 

This was " to furnish the library room in the 
Town House in a decent manner, for the perform- 
ance of divine service. . . . This was truly an humble 
beginning for those who made such high pretensions 
as did these zealous royalists and churchmen. As 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 39 

they assembled in the east end of the town-house, 
and looked round on their twelve forms and their 
movable pulpit, they must have felt the contrast be- 
tween such a tabernacle and the solemn old cathe- 
drals at home ; and have felt too that they were among 
a people who, though of the same blood with them- 
selves, were strangers to their mode of faith and wor- 
ship, despising what they esteemed most sacred, and 
setting at nought the power which they deemed un- 
questionable. It is hardly to be supposed that these 
feelinors were calculated to conciliate them toward 
the Congrresfationalists, or that the condition in which 
they found themselves was favorable at the time to 
their growth in Christian humility or charity." 

The wonderful thing was, certainly, that they 
should find themselves in the town-house at all; 
and it shows how far the spirit of the colony was 
under the dread of English power. But when it 
came to any concession beyond, even the Council 
or a majority of them, though it contained Dud- 
ley, Mason, and Randolph, was firm. A fortnight 
later, July i, a paper from " Mr. Robert Ratcliffe, 
desiring an honorable maintainance and good en- 
couragement suitable for a minister of the Church 
of England," was read at the council meeting, and in 
answer it was " ordered that the contribution money 
collected in the church where he performs divine 
service be solely applied to the maintainance of 
Mr. Ratcliffe." No extreme concession, certainly. 
So the minister was left to the ^50 a year which 
was thus collected. 



40 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

And now if we pass out of the council chamber, 
where doubtless this proposition has been hotly 
debated, and where Randolph had been greatly 
disgusted at the flinching of Dudley (whom he 
had put in power) from carrying out his will, into 
the library room, we can catch glimpses of the 
scene. Even the Puritan diarist, though he deemed 
its presence there a pollution, and " dehorted " 
his family from entering such assemblies, somehow 
knew what was going on. When " one Mr. Clark, 
preacher at the town-house, speaks much against 
the Presbyterians in England and here," he hears 
the echo; and when "one Robison, Esq., that came 
from Antego, is buried with the common prayer, 
and first was had to the town-house and set before 
the pulpit ; " and when on " Sabbath day, August 
8, 'tis said the sacrament of the Lord's Supper 
is administered at the town-house," — he notes, 
" Cleverly there." 

Meantime, Randolph was writing home, with 
touches that add vividness to the picture: — 

" Our company increasing beyond the expectation of the 
govern t, we now use ye exchange, and have ye common 
prayer and two sermons every Sunday, and at 7 o'clock in 
ye morning on Wednesdays and Frydays the whole ser- 
vice of ye church. . . . To humour the people our minister 
preaches twice a day and baptises all that come to him, — 
some infants, some adult persons. We . . . resolve not to 
be baffled by the great affronts, — some calling our min- 
ister Baal's priest, and some of their ministers from the 
pulpit calling our praiers leeks, garlick, and trash. . . . 
To all my crimes [I have] added this one as the greatest 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 4 1 

in bringing the Ictherdge^ and cerimonise of the Church of 
England to be observed amongst us." 

But there were those who did not, like Randolph, 
write letters, whose feelings we must try to penetrate, 
if we would understand why the Church of England 
ought to have been allowed here, and how it won 
its way, — those to whom that little library room at 
the east end of the town-house was like the chiamber 
looking toward the sun-rising, in which Bunyan's pil- 
grim lay till the dawn, and arose and sang a hymn. 
"In the most contentious and stormy periods," says 
Dr. Greenwood, " I doubt not that a holy calm was 
shed upon the heart of many a worshipper as he 
offered up his prayers in the way which to him was 
best and most affecting, and perhaps tlie way in 
which, long years ago, he had offered them up in 
some ivy-clad village church of green England, with 
many dear friends about him, now absent or dead. 
And when they celebrated their first communion, 
on the second Sabbath in August, 1686, I am fully 
persuaded that it was celebrated in that small room 
which they held by sufferance, and round that 'table' 
which was their cheap and lately constructed altar, 
with as much reverence and humility and edifica- 
tion as it was in any church or meeting-house in 
Old England or New." 

The occupancy of the town-house was long 
enough to give the spot indelible associations, yet 
not so long as the Puritans may have desired. For 

^ The misspelling is probably due to the mistake of a copyist. 

6 



42 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

already in the same July came the report that Dud- 
ley's presidency would be only brief, and in Decem- 
ber his rumored successor arrived. The extremists 
amons: the churchmen had doubtless been content 
to await his coming, in hopes of seeing more ener- 
getic measures adopted. They started a subscrip- 
tion paper, indeed, for money to build a church 
for themselves ; but there seem not to have been 
enough of them to prosper greatly with this, from 
their own resources, and a sufficient motive was 
wanting to persuade the Puritan party to contribute. 
Sewall records that Randolph asked him to do so, 
but "seemed displeased because he spoke not up 
to it." The temporary occupation of the town- 
house continued, therefore, unchanged through that 
summer and autumn of 1686; and there Sir Ed- 
mund Andros found the little nursling of the Eng- 
lish church feebly housed from the wintry climate 
of New England, when on the 20th of December 
he landed, the representative of the Roman Catholic 
king who was ex officio head of Church as well as 
of State. 

The moment we speak of Andros, a wide and 
tempting field opens before us, which would lead 
us beyond our subject and quite outside the doors 
of the old town-house, although indeed it is around 
that building that the whole of that pictorial chap- 
ter of our colonial history seems to revolve, from 
the day of his triumphal entry into it to the memo- 
rable April day, twenty-eight months after, when 
the " declaration " deposing him was read from its 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 43 

gallery, and he was brought to it a prisoner. But 
our field of vision to-day only sees him as now the 
pivotal person in the questions which arose at once 
concerning the Church of England here. 

We see him then on that December twentieth 
landinor " at Governor Leverett's wharf about 2 p. m., 
where the president, etc., met him, and so march up 
through the Guards of the 8 Companyes to the 
Town House, where part of the Commission read." 
Whether the sentence was read we are not told, 
which enjoined " that such especially as shall be 
conformable to the rites of the Church of England 
be particularly countenanced and encouraged ; " but 
his first act was to carry out its spirit. He takes 
the oath of allegiance, and as governor, then putting 
on his hat in token of superiority, administers the 
oaths to the councillors. Then entering the library 
room he "speaks to the ministers there about Ac- 
commodation as to a Meeting-house, that might so 
contrive the time as one House might serve two 
Assemblies." Perhaps the pinched and bare fur- 
nishings of the little room which he looked round 
upon stirred his choler (which lay near the surface 
of his mind), as he thought how these Congregation- 
alists were housed in spacious temples. Perhaps 
the tempter, in the shape wherein the Puritan party 
almost believed him to be incarnated — in the per- 
son of Randolph — was at his ear with his favorite 
suggestion. Perhaps this point had been pressed 
upon him before embarking for America, by the 
Bishop of London. So arbitrary a measure does 



44 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

not, however, accord with the just and liberal char- 
acter of Bishop Compton, who was, besides, secluded 
from the discharge of his great office at the time 
when Andros w^as preparing to sail from England, 
having been summoned for contempt by King 
James's Ecclesiastical Commission on August 3d 
and suspended on September 6, 1686, while the 
bishopric was administered by a commission headed 
by the notorious Sprat. But according to a letter of 
Randolph to Archbishop Sancroft, dated August 2, 
1 686, that dignitary had been "pleased to propose, 
when these matters were debated at the Councill 
Table," that " we should have . . . one of the 
churches in Boston." The idea is more in harmony 
with the high prerogative opinions of Sancroft. 
However this may be, there is to my mind no more 
striking grouping of vividly colored contrasts to be 
found in our early history than the scene which 
Sewall's Diary has preserved to us in scantiest out- 
line, when in that moment in the library room of 
the old town-house the power of Great Britain, in 
the person of the King's governor, met the per- 
sistent resistance of New England Puritanism, in 
the person of the Boston ministers, face to face. 

Andros stands with easy dignity and conscious 
power, not clad, as we see him in his portrait, in the 
shining breastplate which so well befits a soldier, 
but as a gentleman of the court, " in a scarlet coat 
laced," with lace falling from his sleeves, and in a 
rich cravat at his neck, the flowing hair or wig, as 
becomes a cavalier, increasing his resemblance to 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 45 

the Stuart sovereigns whom he served ; an aquiline 
nose, a flashing eye, — the bearing of a man who 
had braved danger in soldierly campaigns ; alto- 
gether a different figure from any that had been 
seen here. Able, imperious, an honest servant of 
the despot to whom he believed his loyalty was only 
due, let us give him his deserts of respect, though 
we do not love him, and are thankful that the cause 
which he stood for went down in wreck. Our his- 
tory is infinitely richer because only one Andros 
was possible for us ; and it is more picturesque be- 
cause there was one. 

Over against him is another group of five men in 
sombre clerical dress, their look and bearing always 
austere, and probably specially so at this moment. 
They have come with the other dignitaries to wel- 
come him with fit respect, but with no intention of 
receiving his commands. He may bear himself like 
a courtier, but they are not the less ambassadors of 
the Highest; and some of them could stand in any 
assembly with Andros as peers in self-possession and 
in dignity, and one of them certainly is to prove 
himself more than his peer in statesmanship before 
this controversy is done. To Andros probably, at 
this moment, Increase Mather seemed a very insig- 
nificant personage ; but he found his mistake later. 
When Boston has time to go back and gather up 
the remains of those who have deserved most, no 
memorial tablet or statue will be deemed too good 
for the man who procured us the charter of William 
and Mary. His face also is preserved to us, — the 



46 king's chapel, boston. 

countenance of a Puritan scholar, thoughtful, re- 
fined, severe. The lineaments of Willard, also, of 
the South Church are perpetuated in a frontispiece 
to his " Body of Divinity," — a typical Puritan face, 
lined with thought and care. And with them in the 
group are Cotton Mather, young and full of promise, 
with most of his books still lying unwritten in his 
busy, restless brain ; and' Allen of the First Church, 
rich and hospitable; and his colleague Joshua 
* Moodey, who having been imprisoned in Ports- 
mouth for his Puritan conscience by one governor, 
is not likely to be very compliant with the request of 
another, — as typical a group in our New England 
history as the famous five members of Parliament 
in that momentous scene which was like the stroke 
of destiny for Charles I. 

Behind them is the whole passive resisting force 
of the substance of New England, when they give 
answer, after a day's interval for consultation, that 
they " cannot with a good conscience consent y' our 
Meeting-House should be made use of for y'' Com- 
mon-pray" worship." Nor can there be a doubt that 
when Sir Edmund finally determined, as the Passion 
Week of 16S7 drew near, to take possession of the 
South Church for his own church service, he really 
did as much to prepare his downfall as when he 
acted on the theory that the title of Massachusetts 
land-owners from the Indians was " worth no more 
than the scratch of a bear's paw." 

The reasonable desire of Englishmen belonging 
to the non-Puritan second emigration, here on Eng- 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 47 

lish soil, for the worship and the ordinances of their 
own church, won its rights when backed by, the 
strong secular arm of governors commissioned by 
the Crown to rule an English province as other 
English provinces were ruled, at that time, the world 
over. In the theories of both sides equally, Church 
and State were blended in seventeenth century fash- 
ion. Yet were they wholly wrong? Rather were 
they both sublimely true in their ground-thought, 
that the Commonwealth was divinely ordained. But 
the Puritan conception of Church and State was the 
seed-grain of future independence ; while the new 
thought that was planted here two hundred years 
ao^o was the old thouQ-ht so dear to the mother- 
country, of English law and English loyalty bound 
fast about the ancient throne of England by bonds 
of faith and prayer. Though the time came at last 
for separation, nevertheless was that English root 
one through which came great and enduring gifts 
to our country. 

What followed this opening moment in our his- 
tory will doubtless be described by others in its pic- 
torial and dramatic setting:. It is enou2:h for us 
now to linger on this threshold of the narrative. 

For the present, then, we see the Governor putting 
up with the " 1 2 formes " and " the movable pulpit " 
in the town-house, where there was scant room for 
the increasing company of worshippers. Thither 
he goes, when January 25 "is kept for Saint Paul," 
and when, " Monday, January 31, there is a meeting 
at the Town House, forenoon and 'afternoon (Bell 



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rung for it), respecting the beheading Charles the 
First. Governour there ; very bad going by reason 
of the watery snow." There, then, we leave him, as 
we turn away from that scene of Old World loyalty 
in this uncongenial clime, — around him the group 
of courtiers from England or New York, and those 
whom the New England bitterness regarded as rene- 
gades, most of the gay apparel and of the fashion 
that cast a gleam of brightness on the sombre hue 
of Puritan Boston, officers in scarlet uniforms and 
the Governor's guardsmen, and in the midst Rev. 
Robert Ratcliffe reading those passages in which 
the account of the passion of Christ is applied to 
the blessed martyr, Charles I., while the congrega- 
tion devoutly respond : " They shed the blood of 
the just in the midst of Jerusalem;" "How is he 
numbered with the children of God, and his lot is 
among the saints." And if we listen for the faint 
echoes of the preacher's words, we can hear them 
in the rubric for the " Form of prayer with fasting, 
to be used yearly on the 30th of January, being the 
day of the martyrdom of the blessed King Charles 
the First, to implore the mercy of God that neither 
the guilt of that sacred and innocent blood, nor 
those other sins by which God was provoked to de- 
liver up both us and our king into the hands of 
cruel and unreasonable men, may at any time here- 
after be visited upon us or our posterity ; " which en- 
joins that " After the Niccne creed, shall be read, 
instead of the sermon for that day, the first and 
second parts of the homily against disobedience 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 



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and wilful rebellion, set forth by authority ; or the 
minister who ofificiates shall preach a sermon of his 
own composing upon the same argument." 

And the words of solemn prayer rise from the 
preacher's lips there in the town-house of New Eno-. 
land's Puritan people : " We acknowledge it Thine 
especial favor, that, though for our many and great 
provocations Thou didst suffer Thine anointed, 
blessed King Charles the First (as on this day), to 
fall into the hands of violent and bloodthirsty men, 
and barbarously to be murdered by them, yet Thou 
didst not leave us forever as sheep without a shep- 
herd, but by Thy gracious providence did miracu- 
lously preserve the undoubted heir of his crowns, 
our then gracious sovereign King Charles the 
Second, from his bloody enemies, hiding him under 
the shadow of Thy wings until their tyranny was 
overpast. . . . Grant to our gracious sovereign. 
King James, a long and happy reign over us." 
And Governor and people say. Amen. 

In such forms as these, discarded now (and only 
within the memory of many of us) by the Church 
of England itself, we can see one reason why the 
forefathers of New England did not love or welcome 
the church which bore them as its fruit. Yet even 
in these there was a reaching out through the earthly 
loyalty after something which we may well desire 
even in our new age, and which we who have known 
the story that is written on the soldiers' monument 
by our western portal, ought to understand. I mean 
the spirit which honors and reveres that which is 

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50 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

over it by the ordination of God, and can even suf- 
fer and die for it. 

It was in the spirit of such old-fashioned loyalties 
that the church, which was soon built to relieve the 
South Meeting-house of its unwelcome tenants, took 
from the beginning, as a matter of course, the name 
of King's Chapel. And by a fine felicity, as an 
illustration how the loyalties which fitly belonged 
here while we were English subjects could be con- 
tinued on a higher plane and in a loftier key after 
the royal province became the commonwealth in the 
great republic, the name was continued after the Rev- 
olution in token of loyalty to " the King of Kings." 

So, then, was set here a shoot of the English 
vine ; and we who owe to it the heritage of holy 
and reverend usages and prayers made dear by 
ancient devotion, and so much of Christian faith 
and spiritual help for which the church stands to 
us, may well be grateful and remember. 

Not only the church which was thus first sheltered 
in the old town-house, but all that family of churches 
which are descended from the mother church of 
England, may well look upon that spot as the cradle 
of their faith. And more than that, the fact should 
be imperishably connected with that spot, that — 
though against the will of New England and by 
some constraint of royal power — the old town- 
house was the first spot where freedom of religious 
worship was recognized as " by authority," where 
the ancient order began to give place to the modern 
world. 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 51 

Our festival, then, will be not merely the family 
gathering of an old historical parish. It commemo- 
rates the founding on New England soil of the 
church from which, under God's providence, has 
come a great branch of the Christian Church in 
America, in whose wide spread of Christian work, 
in all that it is doing to make the gospel a power 
of life to this great country, we may well say with 
the apostle : " I therein do rejoice ; yea, and will 
rejoice." 

The planting of this church was amid opposi- 
tion and bitterness, and its history for the first cen- 
tury scarred as that of no other church that I know 
by the controversies, both political and theological, 
which marked that hundred years in our American 
history. It is not to dwell upon that side of the 
story that we shall hold our commemoration. Yet 
we remember it as one honorable and memorable, 
and not a little part of the great history of the land; 
and thankful that the shadows of old disputes and 
alienations in that remote past have so far died 
away, we reach forth to those on the one side or on 
the other, from whose fathers the forefathers of this 
church were parted in the earnestness of their loy- 
alty and the strength of their conviction, the hand 
of fraternal good-will, of Christian love and mutual 
charity, praying that they and we may be builded 
up in the faith of our common Master, " both theirs 
and ours." 

As Mr. Greenwood, half a century ago, spoke of 
our predecessors : " I must observe that if we have 



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not more truth we certainly have more peace than 
they. This is to be attributed chiefly to the change 
of our poHtical and ecclesiastical condition. . . . 
From the very time of our severance from the 
mother Church and the parent State there has been 
not a single disagreement . . . from any cause, so 
far as I can learn. The words of the prophet . . . 
sound like prophecy for us. ' The glory of this 
latter house shall be greater than that of the for- 
mer, saith the Lord of hosts, and in their place will 
I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.' So may it 
ever be. ' Peace be within thy walls ! — for my 
brethren and companions' sakes, I will wish thee 
prosperity.' " 



1 686. 1886. 

Commemorati\)e ^ertJices 




KING'S Chapel, Boston, 

UPON THE 

COMPLETION OF TWO HUNDRED YEARS. 

Wednesday, December 15, 1886, 

AT 2 P.M. 
TOGETHER WITH SOME HISTORICAL MEMORIALS. 



Committee of ^trangementg. 



William Perkins, President. 

J. TeMPLEMAN COOLIDGE, 3d. 

Greely S. Curtis. 
Edward S. Grew. 
Thomas B. Hall. 
George Higginson. 
Patrick T. Jackson, 
Horace A. Lamb. 

Rev. Henry W 



J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., 

Secretary. 
A. Lawrence Lowell. 
Francis C. Lowell. 
Thomas Minns. 
George R. Minot. 
Charles E. Sampson. 
Roger Wolcott. 
Foote, Minister. 

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ORDER OF SERVICES. 



I 1.1- 




I. ORGAN VOLUNTARY. 



II. ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 
William Minot, Esq. 



in. PSALMS. 

( To be read rcsponsively.) 
PSALM XXIV. — Dommi est terra. 

The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof \ the world, and 
they that dwell therein. 

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the 
floods. 

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Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? or who shall stand in 
his holy place ? 

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart ; who hath not lifted 
up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 

He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness 
from the God of his salvation 

This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, 
O Jacob. 

Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting 
doors; and the King of glory shall come in. 

Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the 
Lord mighty in battle. 

Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; even lift them up, ye everlasting 
doors ; and the King of glory shall come in. 

Who is this King of glory ? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of 
glory. Amen. 



PSALM I.'KXX.IY. — Quam dilecta. 

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts ! 

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord ; my 
heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for 
herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of 
hosts, my King and my God. 

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising 
thee. 

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee ; in whose heart are 
the ways of them. 

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well ; the rain 
also filleth the pools. 

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion 
appeareth before God. 

O Lord God of hosts, hear my praj^er ; give ear, O God of Jacob. 

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine 
anointed. 

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather 
be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of 
wickedness. 

For the Lord God is a sun and shield : the Lord will give grace 
and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk 
uprightly. 

O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. 

Amen. 
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PSALM CXyLll. — LcEtatus sum. 

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of 
the Lord. 

Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. 

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together ; 

Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony 
of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. 

For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of 
David. 

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper that love thee 

Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. 

For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be 
within thee. 

Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good. 

Amen. 

IV. SCRIPTURE LESSON. 



V. COLLECTS. 



VL PRAYER. 
The Rev. Frederick Augustus Farley, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.' 



VII. PSALM LXXXIV. 

" WINCHESTER TUNE." 

Sxam |3lanfort's " i!!21I!)oIe aSooIt of ^Psalms," 

16 13- 1 693. — Various Editions. 
PSALM LXXXIV. 

1. How pleasant is thy dwelling place, 

O Lord, of hosts, to me ! 
The tabernacles of thy grace, 
how pleasant. Lord, they be ! 

2. My soul doth long full sore to go 

into thy courts abroad : 
My heart and flesh cry out also 
for thee the living God. 

3. For why ? within thy courts one day 

is better to abide. 
Than other-where to keep or stay 
a thousand days beside. 

4. Much rather had I keep a door 

within the house of God, 
Than in the tents of wickedness 
to settle my abode. 

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5- For God the Lord, light and defence 
will grace and glory give ; 
And no good thing will he with-hold 
from them that purely live. 

6. O Lord of hosts, that man is blest, 
and happy sure is he, 
That is persuaded in his breast 
to trust all times in thee. 



VIII. ADDRESSES. 

The Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, the Minister. 

His Excellency the Governor of Massachusetts, 
George Dexter RoBiNSorf, LL.D. 



IX. HYMN. 

William Everett, Ph. D. 

To be sung by the Coiigregation to the tzine of St. Thomas. (^By request.) 

Come to thy house, O King ! 

To thee thy people kneel ; 
Accept the homage that they bring, 

And all thy grace reveal. 

For ten score years this ground 

Service and song hath known. 
From hearts that sought thee in the sound 

Of worship all their own. 

The ancient and the new, 

The ordered and the free, 
The elders' trust, the prophets' view, 

Blend in our rites to thee. 

And still let age to age, 

Through triumph and through loss, 
Walk by that pure and hallowed page, 

Dear Saviour, to thy cross. 

Bind by thy gospel's tie 

The future to the past. 
And, as the fathers' earliest cry. 
Hear thou the children's last. 
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X. ADDRESSES. 

The Rev. George Edward Ellis, D.D., LL.D., 
President of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 

The Rev. George Angier Gordon, Minister of the Old South Church. 



XI. PSALM XXIII. 

"YORK TUNE." 

Taken from "A very plain and easy Introduction to the Art of Singing Psalm Tunes. 
By Rev. John Tufts, of the Second Church. Newbury, 1712." 

SxQxa iRIat!)er's " |Jsaltcrfum ^mcrfcaixum." 

The Book of Psalms, in a Translation Exactly conformed unto the Original, 

but all in Blank Verse, fitted unto the Tunes commonly used in our 

Churches. Boston : in N. E. 17 18. 



I. 



My Shepherd is th' Eternal God; || I shall not be in (^ng) v,rant: || 

2. In pastures of a tender grass 1| He (QcD^r) makes me to lie down : 1| 

To waters of tranquillities || He gently carries me, (^loug.) 1| 

3. M.^ feeble and my wandering Soul i He (liinbln) does fetch back 

again ; || In the plain paths of righteousness || He does lead 
(^nb guibc) me along, II because of the regard He has i ((goer) 
unto His Glorious Name. || 

4. Yea, when I shall walk in the Vale |1 of the dark (bismal) shade of 

Death, || I '11 of no evil be afraid, || because thou (eoer) art 
with me. || Thy rod and thy staff, these are what || yield (con- 
stant) comfort unto me. 

5. A table thou dost furnish out || richly (for tnc) before my face. |i 

'T is in view of mine Enemies ; || (^nb tl)cn) my head thou dost 
anoint || with fatning and perfuming Oil : i| my cup it (coer) 
overflows. || 

6. Most certainly the thing that is |1 Good, with (most kinb) Benig- 

nity, II This all the days that I do live || shall (still ax(b) ever 
follow me; || Yea, I shall dwell, and Sabbatize, || even to 
(miknoton) length of days, || Lodg'd in the House which does 
belong Ij to (i^im tDi)0 's) the Eternal God. || 

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XII. ADDRESSES. 

Charles William Eliot, LL.D., President of Harvard University. 

The Rev, Phillips Brooks, D.D., Rector of Trinity Church. 



XIII. MAGNIFICAT IN F. 
(B. Tours.) 



XIV. ADDRESS. 
The Rev. John Hopkins Morison, D.D. 



XV. HYMN. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., LL.D., D.C.L. 

(To be sung by the Congregation to the tune of Tallis's Evening Hymn.) 

O'ershadowed by the walls that climb, 

Piled up in air by living hands, 
A rock amid the waves of time, 

Our grey old house of worship stands. 

High o'er the pillared aisles we love 
The symbols of the past look down ; 

Unharmed, unharming, throned above, 
Behold the mitre and the crown ! 

Let not our younger faith forget 

The loyal souls that held them dear ; 

The prayers we read their tears have wet, 
The hymns we sing they loved to hear. 

The memory of their earthly throne 

Still to our holy temple clings, 
But here the kneeling suppliants own 

One only Lord, the King of kings. 

Hark ! while our hymn of grateful praise 
The solemn echoing vaults prolong, 

The far-off voice of earlier days 

Blends with our own in hallowed song : 

To Him who ever lives and reigns, 

Whom all the hosts of Heaven adore, 

Who lent the life His breath sustains, 
Be glory now and evermore ! 



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XVI. ADDRESS. 

The Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D.D., 

Minister of the Church of the Disciples. 



XVII. POEM. 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., LL.D., D.C.L. 



XVIII. ANTHEM. 
(Handel, 1685-1759.) 

Their bodies are buried in peace, but their name liveth evermore. 



XIX. ADDRESSES. 

The Rev. Andrew Preston Peabody, D.D., LL.D., 
Plummer Professor Emeritus in Harvard University. 

The Rev. Francis Greenwood Peabody, 
Plummer Professor in Harvard University. 



XX. ANTHEM. 
(Arthur S. Sullivan.) 

Who is like unto thee, O Lord ? Who is like thee, glorious in holi- 
ness, fearful in praises, doing wonders ? 

Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast re- 
deemed. 

Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine 
inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to 
dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. 

The Lord shall reign for ever and ever. 

Sing ye to the Lord ! Hallelujah ! Amen. 



XXI. BENEDICTION. 
The Rev. John Cordner, LL.D. 



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PORTRAITS, FLAGS, AND ARMS. 



The portraits of Royal Governors and others connected with 
King's Chapel have been kindly loaned by the Commonwealth ; the 
Massachusetts Historical Society; the Misses Loring ; and Mrs. 
George R. Minot. 



The flags employed in the decoration of the interior are the Brit- 
ish flags of 1686-1776; the flag of New England under Governor 
Andros ; the flag of the Province of Massachusetts Bay previous to 
1700; the Pine-Tree flag carried at the Siege of Louisburg ; Patriot 
flags and flags of the Revolution, ending with the first American flag. 
The exterior decoration is a combination of several of these flags. 



The Coats of Arms represented on the escutcheons are copies of 
those of persons belonging to the Parish of King's Chapel in the pre- 
Revolutionary period, most of them having at that time been placed 
in the church. They are those of — 

1. His Honor Sir Francis Nicholson, Knt., Lieutenant-Governor. 

2. His Excellency Joseph Dudley, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. 

3. His Excellency Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor and Commander- 

in-Chief. 

4. His Excellency William Burnet, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. 

5. The Foxcroft Family. 

6. His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. 

7. The Mountfort Family. 

8. His Excellency the Earl of Bellomont, Governor and Commander-in- 

Chief. 

9. His Excellency William Shirley, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. 
ID. His Excellency Thomas Pownall, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. 

11. The Checkley Family. 

12. His Excellency Colonel Samuel Shute, Governor and Commander-in- 

Chief. 

13. The Rev. Roger Price, Rector of King's Chapel and Commissary of the 

Lord Bishop of London. 

14. Capt. Francis Hamilton of His Majesty's Ship of War Kingfisher. 



The Royal Escutcheon hung upon the front of the pulpit is the 
same which, until the Revolution, was placed over the door of the 
Province House, and is the property of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society. 
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PLACES OF WORSHIP. 



THE first administration of the Prayers and Ordinances of the 
Church of England was in the old Town House, May 30, 1686. 
The first meeting for organization was on June 15, and the first ad- 
ministration of the Lord's Supper was on August 2, 1686. Occupancy 
of the South Meeting-House, March 25, 1687 to 1689. First King's 
Chapel, built of wood, and opened for service June 30, 1689, was known 
as " Queen's Chapel " during the reign of Queen Anne. Present church 
erected 1754. 

The first royal Governor connected with the church was Sir Ed- 
mund Andros, Knt. Eight of his successors have worshipped here, 
occupying the Governor's pew as representatives of the Crown, — 
Joseph Dudley, Samuel Shute, William Burnet, Jonathan 
Belcher, William Shirley, Thomas Pownall, Sir Francis Ber- 
nard, Bart., and General Gage. The first service after the evacu- 
ation of Boston by the British troops in 1776 was the funeral of 
General Joseph Warren, whose body was brought from Bunker Hill. 
The congregation worshipped with Trinity Church during the Revolu- 
tionary War, permitting the Old South Church and Society to use 
King's Chapel from 1777 to 1782. The liturgy was altered from that 
of the Church of England in 1785. 






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ROLL OF MINISTERS AND KING'S LECTURERS 
OF KING'S CHAPEL. 



NAME. INDUCTED 

Robert Ratcliffe, Rector i6S6 

JosiAH Clarke, Assistant i6S6 

Samuel Myles, Rector 16S9 

George Hatton, Assistant 1693 

Christopher Bridge, QueetCs Lecturer . . . 1699 

Henry Harris, King's Lecturer 1709 

Roger Price, Rector and Bishop's Commissary . 1729 

Thomas Harward, King's Lecturer . . . . 1731 

Addington Davenport, King's Lecturer . . . 1737 

Stephen Roe, Assistant 1741 

Henry Caner, D.D., Rector 1747 

Charles Brockwell, King's Lecturer. . . . 1747 

John Troutbeck, King's Lecturer 1755 

James Freeman, Reader 1782 

James Freeman, D.D., Rector and Minister . . 17S7 

Samuel Cary, Associate Minister 1809 

Francis William Pitt Greenwood, Asso- 
ciate Minister 1824 

Francis William Pitt Greenwood, D. D., 

Rector and Minister 1836 

Ephraim Peabody, D.D., Minister 1845 

Henry Wilder Foote, Minister 1861 



DIED OR 
REMOVED. 



1689 

1728 
1696 
1706 
1729 
1746 
1736 
1740 

1744 
1776 

1775 

1836 
1815 



1843 
1856 



iFirst Cjjutcl) WlBmxtitXis. 
Benjamin Bullivant. Richard Bankes. 



WARDENS AND VESTRY. 1886-1887. 

J 



Wardens. 



ARTHUR T. LYMAN, 

CHARLES P. CURTIS 

A. LAWRENCE LOWELL, Treasurer. 

WILLIAM PERKINS. 

PHILIP H. SEARS. 

JOHN REVERE* 

GEORGE HIGGINSON. 

PATRICK T. JACKSON. 



GEORGE C. RICHARDSON.* 
JOHN W. WHEELWRIGHT. 
GREELY S. CURTIS. 
THOMAS B. HALL. 
ROBERT H. STEVENSON. 
J. RANDOLPH COOLIDGE, Jr. 
ROGER WOLCOTT. 



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* Died 1SS6. 



THE COMMUNION PLATE. 



THE ancient Communion Plate of King's Chapel was the gift of 
the following Kings : William and Mary, George II., George 
III. A portion of it was given by the Church before the Revolution 
to other parishes of the Church of England, on receiving later royal 
gifts. But that which was carried away by the last royalist rector on 
the evacuation of Boston by the British troops in March, 1776, amounted 
to twenty-eight hundred ounces of silver. The present Plate is the 
gift of members of the Church at different times, subsequently. Among 
the pieces are the following : — 

1. A Flagon. " King's Chapel, 1798." 

2. A Christening Basin. "King's Chapel, The Gift of Ebenezer 
Oliver, Esq*"', 1798." 

3. A Salver. " King's Chapel, 1798. This plate was given me at 
my birth by my Grand Father, Nath^- Gary, Esq'' " 

4. Two Offertory Plates. "To King's Chapel, Easter, 1829. 
From Joseph May, of Boston." 

5. Two Patens. "To King's Chapel, 1798. From Madam BuL- 

FINCH." 

6. Two Cups. "To King's Chapel, Boston. From Mrs. Catha- 
rine Coolidge." 

7. Plate. " Presented to King's Chapel by John L. Gardner, 
1868." 

8. A Silver Cross, very richly wrought, from James W. Paige. 

9. A large and richly wrought Cup and Salver, the gift of many 
friends to the Rev. James Walker, D.D., LL.D., on his eightieth 
birthday, bequeathed by him to the Rev. Samuel Osgood, D.D., LL.D., 
of New York, in 1874, and by him presented to King's Chapel for 
communion use. 

10. The handsome Communion Service which formerly belonged to 
the New North Church in Boston (founded in 1714). This service 
consists of Ten Tankards and Cups, Two Flagons, and One Chris- 
tening Basin, and was " Given to King's Chapel, Boston, by a few 
members of the Congregation, Easter, 1872," having been purchased 
by them on its sale in consequence of the dissolution of that ancient 
society. These pieces bear the coats-of-arms of the original donors 
and other inscriptions. Among the oldest is a Tankard, inscribed, 
"Given by Deacon John Burnett to ye New North Church 1714." 

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CHOIR. 



Organist and Musical Director: JOHN W. TUFTS. 



Sopranos. 

Miss GERTRUDE FRANKLIN.* 

Miss LOUISE ELLIOTT. 

Miss ELENE BUFFINGTON KEHEW. 

^ItOS. 

Mrs. E. C. FENDERSON.* 
Miss GERTRUDE EDMANDS. 
Miss HARRIET A. WHITING. 



Etnats. 

Mr. J. C. BARTLETT.* 
Mr. GEORGE J. PARKER. 
Mr. GEORGE W. WANT. 

23aisscs. 

Dr. C. W. GODDARD.* 
Mr. J. K. BERRY. 
Mr. H. T. REMICK. 



* Of the regular Choir. 



USHERS. 



FRANCIS BULLARD. 
JOHN G. COOLIDGE. 
CHARLES P. CURTIS, Jr. 
WILLIAM ENDICOTT, 30. 
Dr. JOHN ROMANS, 20. 
ARTHUR LYMAN. 
HERBERT LYMAN. 



EDWARD B. ROBINS. 
RICHARD SEARS. 
LEMUEL STANWOOD. 
CHARLES D. TURNBULL. 
ARTHUR W. WHEELWRIGHT. 
ELLERTON P. WHITNEY. 
W. POWER WILSON. 



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COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES 

BY 

KING'S CHAPEL, BOSTON, 

SEpon tlje Completion of E'caa ^l^untircti ^ears, 
Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1886. 




COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES. 



THE decoration of King's Chapel, both exterior and 
interior, for the occasion, was designed with the 
purpose of making everything employed illustrative of the 
unique and historic significance of the church. On the 
outside of the Chapel, over the front porch on the face of 
the tower behind the colonnade, was a tablet (six feet six 
inches by three feet six inches) surrounded by six colonial 
and patriot flags, extended over the main door and upon 
the walls on either side, — a total width of eighteen feet. 
A large palm-leaf, painted a dead green, extended across 
the tablet, upon which in a ribbon was written " King's 
Chapel, 1686-1886." 



70 KING S CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

The flags, beginning at the left hand, were : First, the 
sea-colors of New England in use as early as the end of 
the seventeenth century; the British Union of 1707; the 
Pine- Tree flag of New England; the Grand-Union flag, 
first raised by Washington at the camp at Cambridge on 
Jan. I, 1776 ; another early flag of New England ; and the 
flag of New England sent by King James the Second with 
Governor Andros in 1686. 

The interior decorations consisted of portraits of Royal 
Governors and others ; of twenty-four Colonial and Revo- 
lutionary flags ; of the coats-of-arms of the Governors and 
of other distinguished persons. The Governor's pew was 
restored, its dimensions remaining clearly outlined on the 
plaster ceiling, and its shape given by a drawing from 
memory by Miss Sarah H. Clarke. 

The galleries of the Chapel are supported by eight 
Corinthian columns in pairs, which continue to the 
ceiling. On the bases of these columns were placed the 
portraits of several of the Royal Governors and of some 
noted persons who worshipped at King's Chapel, in the 
following order : — 

Rebfxca, wife of Governor Joseph Dudley. 

Governor Joseph Dudley. 

Governor Burnet. 

Governor Belcher, painted by F. Liopoldt in 1729, in London. 

Lieutenant-Governor Dummer, said by tradition to have been 

painted by Lely or Kneller. 
Governor Hutchinson, painted by Edvi^ard Truman in 1741. 
Governor Pownall, a copy, painted by Pratt, of the original 

portrait. 
Peter Faneuil, painted by Smybert. 
Rev. James Freeman, pastor of King's Chapel 1787-1836, 

painted by Guliger. 

These portraits were kindly loaned by the Massachusetts 
Historical Society, with the exception of that of Governor 
Burnet, which hangs in the senate-chamber at the State 



I^^i 








CAPT. Hamilton's 

ARMS.* 




ARMS OF BURNET. 




DAVENPORT ARMS. 





DUDLEY ARMS.* 



ARMS OF SIR FRANCIS NICH- 
OLSON, 1693. 





ARMS OF SHUTE. 



ARMS OF ANDROS.* 



* The escutcheons marked with an asterisk are known to have hung in the first wooden King's Chapel. 





ARMS OF BELCHER.' 



I'RICE COAT-OF-ARMS. 





FOXCROFT ARMS.* 



CHECKLEY ARMS. 





ARMS OF SHIRLEY. 



ARMS OF BELLOMONT.* 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 7 1 

House ; that of Lieutenant-Governor Dummer, belong- 
ing to the Misses Loring : and that of the Rev. James 
Freeman, belonging to the family of the late Mr. George 
Richards Minot. It was found to be impossible to obtain 
portraits of some persons pre-eminently associated with our 
history, — as Governors Andros and Shirley, — while some 
of those represented were only placed here officially, and 
not as worshipping here ; but it was felt that they might 
properly be admitted as types of the period to which they 
belonged. 

Upon the columns, directly over the portraits, were hung 
the escutcheons containing the coats-of-arms of the Gover- 
nors and of other persons connected with the Chapel pre- 
vious to the Revolution. The originals of most of these 
coats-of-arms were hung in the first, wooden Chapel. Be- 
ginning on the left hand with the arms of his Honor Sir 
Francis Nicholson, Knight, Lieutenant-Governor, as in 
the list on the programme, the series ended on the right 
hand with those of Captain Francis Hamilton, of His 
Majesty's ship-of-war "Kingfisher," in 1687. 

The front of the galleries is ornamented with raised 
panels, three between each set of columns, — twenty-four 
in all. Each of these panels contained a Colonial or a 
Revolutionary flag, beginning with the Cross of St. George, 
and ending with the first American flag unfurled at the 
battle of Brandy wine, September, 1777. Among them was 
the flag of New England under Andros ; the flag of the 
Province of Massachusetts Bay previous to 1700; the blue 
flag with the crescent raised on Fort Sullivan by Moultrie 
in 1775 ; the Pine-Tree flag of New England ; the yellow 
field, with the coiled rattlesnake, — a flag often carried by 
the Patriots, and a favorite ornament on their drum-heads ; 
the rattlesnake flag, with the motto " Don't tread on me," 
used by Paul Jones ; a pine-tree flag, with rattlesnake 
coiled at its roots, — the flag hoisted by the Massachusetts 
State cruisers ; the Beaver flag, used by the merchants of 



72 king's chapel, boston. 

New York before the Revolution ; the Grand-Union flag 
of 1776; and a Revolutionary flag of Rhode Island. 

The portraits, escutcheons, and flags were connected by 
a double garland of laurel. 

The reading-desk was enveloped in a British flag ; and 
the front of the organ loft was draped with large banners, 
representing the Lion of St. Andrew on a yellow ground, 
the pre-Revolutionary flags of New England, and the 
British Union Jack. 

On the restored Governor's pew was placed the ancient 
crown from the top of the organ. In front of the pulpit 
hung the carved tablet bearing the Royal Arms of England 
which formerly hung over the door of the old Province 
House, and is now in the possession of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society. On the communion-table, beneath the 
windows of Munich glass which the late Mr. John Araory 
Lowell gave to the church, was spread the church sil- 
ver, — embracing various pieces given by members of the 
parish in the last century, the beautiful memorial pieces 
of President James Walker, and the rich communion 
service formerly belonging to the New North Church, 
which was, on the dissolution of that ancient parish in 
1873, bought and presented to King's Chapel by mem- 
bers of our congregation. 

The Committee feel that the parish owe a special obliga- 
tion to Mr. J. Templeman Coolidge, 3d, for the thorough 
care and artistic perfection with which the whole plan of 
decoration was arranged by him, and carried out in every 
detail, under his personal supervision, by Messrs. Savory 
and Son and Messrs. Lamprell and Marble. 

The Committee were also much indebted to Mr. Robert 
S. Peabody, a son of the former minister of the church, for 
supervising the reconstruction of the old Governor's pew 
as it existed down to the year 1824. 

Wednesday, December 15, had been selected for these 
services, as being the day of the month, though not the 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. ^ T^ 

month itself, on which the exact anniversary of the first 
organization of the King's Chapel fell, the first meeting 
having been held June 15, the second July 4, and the 
first communion service on the second Sabbath in August. 
It being impossible in the summer season to gather to- 
gether all whom it was desirable to have take part in our 
celebration, it was thought best to appoint the recollection 
of all these days at this later date. The weather was most 
propitious, — a clear, moderate, bright December day, 
though preceded and followed by days of storm. Eleven 
hundred and fifty tickets had been issued, and the church 
was thronged in every part. The arrangements for seating 
the audience were under the care of Mr. Roger Wolcott, 
assisted by twelve young men of the parish. The chancel 
was filled with seats for the occasion, which were occupied 
by the clerical speakers, and by many other prominent 
clergymen of the city, of different denominations. The 
Governor's pew as restored was occupied by his Excel- 
lency the Governor of the Commonwealth, his Honor the 
Lieutenant-Governor, his Honor the Mayor of the City of 
Boston, President Eliot of Harvard University, and Dr. 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, — the speakers being conducted 
from that pew to the reading-desk to make their addresses. 
The services began at two of the clock, and were intently 
listened to by the large audience to their close at twenty 
minutes before six. 

The gentlemen invited to make addresses were selected 
as representing various historical associations of the church, 
or as being themselves in different ways connected with it. 
A descendant in the sixth generation of one of the original 
subscribers to build the first wooden church in 1689 pre- 
sided. The religious services were conducted by the min- 
ister, together with the son of the revered Dr. Ephraim 
Peabody, and the grandson and namesake of one of the 
most honored wardens of the church in a former genera- 
tion, Col. Joseph May. The Rev. Frederick A. Farley, D.D., 



74 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

of Brooklyn, N. Y., and the Rev. Thatcher Thayer, D.D., 
of Newport, R. I., who were both baptized by Dr. Free- 
man, and are among the oldest living descendants of the 
church, had also been invited to take part in the services, 
but were unable to be present. The Governor of the 
Commonwealth fitly spoke as the successor of eight of his 
pre-Revolutionary predecessors, and of Governor Gore, 
who all worshipped here. The President of the Massachu- 
setts Historical Society also represented the First Church, 
the mother of the religious life of Boston. The connection 
of the Old South Church and of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church with the first hundred years of our history gave a 
peculiar fitness to the addresses of the minister of the Old 
South Church and the rector of Trinity Church ; and the 
remaining speakers had equally significant reason for taking 
part in the services, — Dr. Holmes and Dr. Andrew P. Pea- 
body being members of the present parish, while not only 
the honored ministry but even the names of the ministers 
during the second century, Drs. Freeman, Greenwood, and 
Ephraim Peabody, were recalled by those who spoke. To 
these should be added the name of the Rev. Samuel Cary, 
colleague minister from 1808 to 181 5, a fitting tribute to 
whose memory is given in the letter of the Rev. Dr. Farley. 

The music was arranged to show the progression from 
the English church-music in use at the time of the foun- 
dation of King's Chapel, and that in use in the Puritan 
meeting-houses of New England at about the same period, 
to the rich anthems of modern church-music. With the 
two beautiful hymns kindly written for this occasion, in 
the singing of which the whole congregation joined, the 
music was exquisitely rendered by a choir of twelve voices. 
The whole was under the direction of Mr. John W. Tufts, 
the organist and musical director of the church, to whose 
care much of the success was due. 

In the evening a reception was held for the parish at the 
house of Mrs. George Baty Blake, 37 Beacon Street, 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 75 

which was attended by many members of the parish and 
by some other friends. 

Nearly six hundred letters were received by the Com- 
mittise from invited guests and others, a portion of which 
will be found in the Correspondence. 

The services opened with an Organ Voluntary, followed 
by the Address of Welcome. 



ADDRESS. 

BY WILLIAM MINOT, ESQ. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, — It is my pleasant 
ofBce to welcome you, on behalf of the congrega- 
tion of King's Chapel, to the memorial celebration 
of the two hundredth anniversary of the founda- 
tion of this church. We gather here to renew our 
memories of the wise and gifted men who for two 
centuries, through all social and political changes 
and vicissitudes, have instructed the faith and pro- 
moted the piety of the numerous generations of 
their parishioners. 

We keep with affectionate interest the birthdays 
of those we love. How much more should we 
hallow the birth-year of our church, which for so 
many generations has dispensed the abiding hope, 
the steadfast faith, the unfailing charity of the Chris- 
tian religion ! 

How manifold are the associations with the build- 
ing ! The King's Chapel ! That name alone is a 
monument, and one of the most interesting of mon- 
uments. It spans the two centuries which mark 
the departure from the divine right of kings in 



76 king's chapel, boston. 

Church and State to the present happy period of 
absolute political and religious freedom. 

How much toward this great movement has been 
contributed by the eminent divines who have been 
pastors of this church, is a large part of the story to 
be told us to-day. If hero-worship is ever permis- 
sible, it is of these laborers for the truth and work- 
ers for salvation, whose spirits, we may fondly hope, 
join with us to-day in this renewed dedication of 
this sacred home of their highest earthly labors. 

Let us, therefore, in this belief begin the ceremo- 
nies of the occasion with those venerable words of 
praise and prayer which for two hundred years have 
so comforted and strengthened the hearts of the 
children of men when gathered under this roof. 

The Minister of the church then said : — 

" The Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the 
earth keep silence before Him." 

He also read, the congregation responding, Psalms xxiv., 
Domini est terra; Ixxxiv., Qiiam dilecta ; cxxii., Lcetatiis 
sum. 

Rev. Francis Greenwood Peabody, Plummer Professor 
of Christian Morals in Harvard University, then read the 
Scripture lesson from the eighth chapter of the First Book 
of the Kings, verses 12-18, 20, 22, 23, 26-30, 33-36, 54-60. 
After which the Minister of the church read collects and 
offered prayer.^ 

^ In this part of the service he took the place of the Rev. Fred- 
erick Augustus Farley, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., one of the 
oldest surviving children of the church, who was prevented from 
being present. 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 77 

Minister. The Lord be with you. 
Response. And with thy spirit. 

Let us pray : — 

Lord of all power and might, who art the author 
and giver of all good things ; graft in our hearts 
the love of Thy name, increase in us true religion, 
nourish us with all goodness, and of Thy great 
mercy keep us in the same, through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. 

O Lord, we beseech Thee mercifully to receive 
the prayers of Thy people who call upon Thee ; 
and grant that they may both perceive and know 
what things they ought to do, and also may have 
grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same, through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. 

O Lord, we beseech Thee to encourage the 
hearts of Thy faithful people, that they, always 
relying on Thy power and trusting in Thy grace, 
may bring forth plenteously the fruit of good works, 
and of Thee be plenteously rewarded, both in the 
world which now is, and that which is to come, 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

O Almighty God, who hast knit together Thine 
elect, in one communion and fellowship, in the mys- 
tical body of the Son Christ our Lord ; grant us 
grace so to follow Thy blessed saints in all virtuous 
and godly living, that we may come to those un- 
speakable joys which Thou hast prepared for those 



78 king's chapel, boston. 

who unfeignedly love Thee, through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. 

O God, who hast built the living temple of Thy 
Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and 
Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief 
Corner-stone ; grant unto the work of Thine own 
hands continual increase of glory and spiritual 
strength, and daily make Thy people more meet 
for the eternal tabernacle of Thy rest in the 
heavens, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Almighty and most merciful God, our Heavenly 
Father, gather us into the sanctuary of Thy holy 
presence, and fill our rejoicing with Divine joy and 
with the peace that passeth understanding. In the 
house that the fathers builded to Thee, the chil- 
dren's children still look to Thee for Thy faithful 
blessing, still trust in Thy continuing mercies, and 
pray in the Name which is above every name for 
Thy pardon and Thy peace. 

We bless Thee for all pure and acceptable wor- 
ship which has kindled its flame on this altar, for 
every faithful word of Thy servants, and every sacri- 
fice of consecrated hearts. We praise Thee for the 
sure witness of one generation to another, testifying 
of Thy goodness and bearing the fruit of the gospel 
in lives renewed by Thy grace. Make us to be par- 
takers with those who have gone before, in the great 
gift of the life immortal, and members of the Church 
of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; 
and beyond this earthly tabernacle grant us to look 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 79 

for that building of God, the house not made with 
hands, eternal in the heavens. 

For this church we invoke Thy consecrating 
Spirit, to renew it in the love and following of Thy 
blessed Son. We pray for the Church Universal, 
and for all who break to it the bread of life. At 
this time, as in duty bound, we pray for our Mother- 
Country and for her Queen ; for this land and Com- 
monwealth, and for those who are set over us in 
authority, — that rulers may rule in Thy fear, and 
that the hearts of Thy faithful people may be kept 
in godly quietness. 

So grant that not alone the holy places where 
Thine honor dwelleth, but the wide earth may 
come to be none other than the house of God, the 
gate of heaven, and that all Thy children may 
pray the prayer of Our Lord Jesus Christ, — 

Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy 
Name. Thy Kingdom come ; Thy will be done on 
earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily 
bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive 
those who trespass against us. And lead us not 
into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine 
is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for 
ever and ever. Amen. 

Then followed the giving out by Professor Peabody and 
the singing of the version of Psalm Ixxxiv. to "Winchester 
Tune," as it was in familiar use in the Church of England 
at the time of the foundation of King's Chapel, and was 
doubtless often sung here. 



8o KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

The Chairman then said : " The Rev. Henry W. 
FOOTE, the pastor of this church, needs no introduction 
at my hands. As the steward of the church, as the student 
of its history, as its official biographer, and still more as its 
loving child, no one could more confidently give us the 
interesting story of its past." 

ADDRESS. 

BY THE REV. HENRY WILDER FOOTE. 

In this two hundredth year of our parish life, we 
welcome all who share its traditions. The present 
congregation, as the guardians to whom has been 
intrusted the duty of preserving and transmitting 
them, feel that these do not belong to themselves 
alone. 

First of all, we reverently thank Almighty God, 
in this ancient house of prayer, that the angel of His 
presence has been with His people. While seven 
generations have come and gone like shadows, and 
all beside has changed around us, the breath of their 
piety lingers like incense, the light of God's illumi- 
nating answer still shines in His sanctuary. In this 
place which they of old time builded to His praise, 
we rise to the solemn elevation of those words of the 
Consecration Service which recognize that " devout 
and holy men, as well under the law as under the 
gospel, moved either by the express command of 
God or by the secret inspiration of the blessed 
spirit, . . . have erected houses for the public 
worship of God, and separated them from all 
unhallowed, worldly, and trivial uses, in order to fill 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 8 1 

men's minds with greater reverence for His glori- 
ous majesty, and affect their hearts with more 
devotion and humility in His service." 

In accord with this high, reverent thought, these 
services seek to make clear to our sight different 
aspects of the divine leading in our past. So, then, 
we have not hesitated to bring into this Christian 
church these memorials, which revive again the 
memories once familiar here, — the royal gov. 
ernors, from Dudley to Hutchinson ; the bene-, 
factors, like Peter Faneuil ; the armorial bearings 
which formerly emblazoned these walls ; and the 
banners of the colony and province of Massachu- 
setts Bay which used to wave around this spot, 
and under which many a brave man went forth 
hence to the disasters of Martinique in 1693, and 
those of the St, Lawrence in 1 711, or to the tri- 
umphs of Port Royal, and, later, of Louisburg and 
Quebec. 

The two centuries bridge an interval which sepa- 
rates us from a world as remote as if it were mediae- 
val, — the time of James Stuart in our mother land 
and church, of Louis XIV. in France. How shall 
we revive those ancient loyalties ? In our age, so 
little sympathetic with the Old World life, and 
among a community founded by Puritans and 
indelibly marked with their strong impress, there 
is no slight danger of forgetting the generous ele- 
ments which were inwrought into the fabric of New 
England history from the wealth and power of 
the mother-country, from the churchly habits and 



82 king's chapel, boston. 

"sober standard of relio-ious feelinof" of men to 
whom their Book of Prayer was dear. 

Children of the Puritans, indeed, most of us prob- 
ably are. If any here are not, even they cannot 
escape from the fact that they are largely the 
mental and spiritual children of those masterful 
men. Nor should any religious commemoration 
in their good town of Boston fail to do honor to 
the faith for which they endured hardships, the 
consecrated will by which they tamed the wilder- 
ness, the clear and lofty purpose which shaped a 
community, perhaps more sober, steadfast, Bible- 
reading, Bible-loving than any other that the sun 
has ever shone upon, weaving together for fifty years 
a secure nest of religion and morals for a gentler 
form of faith to find shelter in. They were here, — 
the First Church, mother of the religious life of 
Boston, its character moulded by the saintly 
Wilson and the more potent spirit of Cotton ; 
the Second Church, shepherded by the Mathers, 
and the Third by Willard. They gave no cheerful 
welcome, indeed, to the Church of England when it 
sought here a planting-ground and a place to take 
root in. 

All passes before us in a swift succession of 
pictures as we gaze back. We see first the Rev. 
Robert Ratcliffe, Christian scholar and gentleman, 
with the little company around him of earnest 
churchmen on that fair day of May, 1686, when 
"worship, according to the use of the Church of 
England, is first had by authority in the town- 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 83 

house." We see the "12 formes for the servise 
of the church and the movable pulpit;" we hear 
the echo of the "prayers of ye church, to be said 
every Wednesday and Friday in the yeare, for the 
present, in the Library chamber in ye town-house in 
Boston, and in the Summer Season to beginne at 7 
of the Clock in the morneing, and in the Winter 
Season at 9 of the Clock in the Forenoone." In 
August the first sacrament of the Church of Eng- 
land consecrates the town-house, that centre of the 
primitive Boston life, with an unsecular blessing. 
December brings Governor Andros, almost on this 
very day two hundred years ago ; and few scenes 
are more vividly written for us in contemporary 
record than those in which the soldierly courtier 
from King James's court shines against the dark 
background of the Puritan divines. The reluc- 
tant hospitality of the South Meeting-house suffers 
rather than welcomes the new-comer. The gentle 
spirit of Lady Andros passes across the scene, and 
soon the " lychns illuminate the cloudy air as the 
bell tolls " for her burial. Then the wooden walls 
rise of the little church on a corner of the town's 
earliest burial-ground, where now we stand, and 
where it has been so long like a church of the Old 
World in its quiet churchyard. 

The shadowy forms pass before us of the congre- 
gation who went in and out of that old church. But, 
as we gaze, these walls seem to shrink to narrower 
proportions; the pews are filled with worshippers 
whose faces still look forth as from the canvases of 



84 king's chapel, boston. 

Blackburn and Smibert; uniformed officers of the 
British Army and Navy brighten with scarlet the 
pew reserved for them ; the finely decorated gov- 
ernor's pew holds stately guests. "In the west 
gallery is the first organ which ever pealed to the 
praises of God in this country, while displayed 
along its walls and suspended from its pillars, after 
the manner of foreign churches, are escutcheons 
and coats-of-arms; ... in the pulpit an hour-glass, 
mounted on a large and elaborate stand of brass; 
and at the east end ' the altar-piece, whereon was 
the Glory painted, the Ten Commandments, the 
Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and some texts of Script- 
ure.' " The tones echo faintly to our ear of the 
Rev. Samuel Myles, growing old in his ministry of 
thirty-nine years ; of his successor, the Rev. Roger 
Price, rector and bishop's commissary with dele- 
gated Episcopal authority over the churches of his 
communion in New England ; and of Caner, com- 
ing in his prime to the wooden church, soon to see 
his vision made real of this statelier buildino:, to 
grow old in his ministry here, " the father of the 
American clergy," and to go forth an exile at the 
age of seventy-six years, loyal to his oath of alle- 
giance to his king, with not a fevv of his congrega- 
tion, when the darkening sky of the Revolution 
becomes night for them. 

The scene changes. We see these solid walls rise, 
the first quarrying of that Quincy granite which the 
prudent builders were fearful lest they might ex- 
haust. From far and wide come the contributions 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 85 

for its building ; English cathedral clergy and Lon- 
don merchants, admirals like Sir Charles Knowles 
and Sir Peter Warren, Pepperell the victor of 
Louisburg, as well as bishops and the Crown itself, 
are asked for pious offerings. The people them- 
selves pour forth — the rich of their treasure ; the 
poor, of their mites — to rear what was meant to 
be the noblest house of worship in North America. 
Pre-eminent among them all as benefactors and 
founders of the new church shine the names of 
Shirley and Apthorp, whose monuments are fitly 
enshrined here. A noble organ, whose keys Han- 
del's finsfers are said to have touched, takes its 

O 

place in the new church, and also a painting, said 
to be from the hand of Benjamin West. The altar 
gleams with silver plate, — the gift of three kings 
of England ; and alternating with the successive 
rectors we hear the voices of the successive kings' 
lecturers, from Bridge to Troutbeck, whom the 
royal bounty sustains here as long as Church and 
State hold together. Meantime, a group of par- 
ishes of the Church of England have sprung up 
from this vigorous root, and Christ Church and 
Trinity Church as its children. 

Through those ninety years, the central persons 
in the church are the governors who bear authority 
from the Crown, who mostly tread the way for wor- 
ship between the Province House and the chapel 
of their king. These walls are draped in mourning 
for King George H., and hear the loyal prayer for 
his successor. 



86 king's chapel, boston. 

The scene again changes. The murmur of pop- 
ular discontent grows louder. Trampling mobs pass 
near these walls, and Faneuil Hall and the South 
Meeting-house are not far away. That old world 
goes down in the earthquake of revolution ; but the 
gray stone church still stands, though crown and 
mitre disappear. These aisles which have seen so 
many pageants enter, — one of the last in that loyal 
time the military funeral of Lieutenant-general 
Shirley, laid to rest in the vaults below, — now see 
the martyred Warren brought here from Bunker 
Hill, and hear the orator of that occasion first pub- 
licly utter in America the word " independence." 
Then follows the dramatic expiation to the Old 
South Church of its seizure by Governor Andros 
ninety years before, as it is kindly admitted here by 
the free consent of the wardens to hold its worship 
during more than five years of the war. 

The scene changes yet once more, as we enter 
the modern chapter of the church's history, which 
has now endured for the last one hundred years. 
As its fragments knit together again, after being 
"torn from their king and church," changes come 
over its worship, larger even than the separation, 
yet with a great desire for truth and peace and 
Christian unity, and with a continuing love for the 
past, its religious associations, and its Christian 
faith. The church passes, with the new life of the 
time, from being the visible embodiment of the 
power and presence of the mother-country here, 
into the quiet religious ways of Christian duty and 



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JOSEPH DUDLEY. 
(Governor 1702-1715.) 



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privilege, — one with a multitude of others here, all 
seeking in their several paths to make real the 
kingdom of God on earth. 

Our commemoration to-day is not so much of this 
later time, but of the earlier, which has a universal 
interest, in which all may fitly claim a share. The 
latter days (in some of which we ourselves stand) tell 
their story in marble, — in part, by the busts of the 
godly ministers Freeman, Greenwood, and Peabody, 
and of a few of the many good men who have given 
this parish character in this community, and who 
would themselves have said that here they found 
the secret of what in them was best. We shall be 
strono^er and better for rememberino: what manner 
of men these were; and this church, or any church, 
can ask no happier thing than that the children of 
such men may continue the worthy tradition of 
character and reverence and charity. 

Nor did the latest period of our history pass with- 
out its being closely interwoven again in the great 
annals of the age. The revolution of 1689 saw the 
people led against Andros by John Nelson, his 
fellow-worshipper here ; the revolution of 1776 saw 
the devoted loyalists go forth hence to exile, but 
the body of Warren brought here as the fittest 
place of honor; and it was twenty-five years last 
April since that martial music was heard once 
more, and Governor Andrew brought " tenderly " 
the Massachusetts soldiers who had fallen in the 
streets of Baltimore, and laid them to rest for a 
little space beneath this roof. The rest of the 



88 king's chapel, boston. 

story is written in our hearts and on the western 
wall. 

What remains but that we all, who ourselves re- 
member with gratitude any touch of the divine 
Power that is over all our lives, here felt and known, 
or who know that the prayers of those whom we 
most honor in bygone generations have been filled 
from these ancieut springs of faith that have "flowed 
fast by the oracle of God," should wish that with 
faith and power the old church may still lay hold 
of the new time ; that the words of the old rector, 
when this corner-stone was laid, may be true to 
future generations as in the past : " Our worship is 
grave and comely, ' tis pure and simple, yet full of 
noble majesty, not superstitiously incumbered, nor 
indecently naked. Let every circumstance attending 
it partake of the same genuine and native ornament. 
Let the house of God in which it is performed rise 
up with the same majestic simplicity, neither incum- 
bered with vain and trifling decorations, nor yet 
wanting: in that native o^randeur which becomes the 
beauty of worship, and which tends to beget impres- 
sions of awe and reverence in all that shall approach 
it." And that what was said by his successor a 
century ago may still be true : " Our earnest desire 
is to live in brotherly love and peace with all men, 
and especially with those who call themselves the 
disciples of Jesus Christ." 

The Chairman then said : " For nearly a century, the 
governors of the colony, in royal state, attended divine ser- 
vice in this church. The older members of the congre- 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 89 

gation can remember the high and ornamental pew set 
apart for their use. It was a picturesque addition to the 
architecture of the church. This pew, which was removed 
about sixty years ago, has been restored for this occasion ; 
and I am glad that the Governor of our Commonwealth, 
who honors us with his presence to-day, has been placed 
there as an expression of the respect, the gratitude, the 
affection which grace and dignify the closing days of his 
official life. If the people of Massachusetts had but one 
voice, they would say to him, with all the sincerity of truth 
and the solemnity of history, ' Well done, thou good and 
faithful servant ! ' We beg of his Excellency the favor of 
some words of sympathy." 



ADDRESS. 

BY GEORGE DEXTER ROBINSON, LL.D., 

Governor of Massachttsctts. 

An occasion like the present brings the largest 
advantage when we are tauofht its lessons and suo-. 

o 

gestions. In the declaration of rights, the people 
of our Commonwealth have included the broad 
proposition that " all religious sects and denomina- 
tions demeaning themselves peaceably and as good 
citizens of the Commonwealth shall be equally 
under the protection of the law; and no subordi- 
nation of any one sect or denomination to another 
shall ever be established by law." So far as consti- 
tutional or legal provisions extend, every member of 
the body politic, protected against the domination 
of others, may choose his religious home with the 
body of worshippers he approves, and uphold his 



90 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

own household of faith as an essential and inalien- 
able right. 

The State is not constituted to teach religion ; 
nor is the Church charged with the duty of making, 
expounding, or administering the civil laws. So 
broad is the separation between these momentous 
powers and privileges, so harmonious is the en- 
joyment of citizenship in Massachusetts, that we 
scarcely realize as we exclaim, " I was free born ! " 
that the fathers obtained their freedom at a great 
cost and exceeding sacrifice, and bore many a griev- 
ous conflict to lay the foundations of civil and re- 
ligious liberty on our soil upon so enduring a basis 
that its blessings far outnumber and surpass all the 
world has witnessed elsewhere. 

It is abundantly fruitful, therefore, to recognize 
so important an anniversary as that you celebrate 
to-day, and to yield ourselves to the influence of 
the holy associations that cluster here. 

We stand in the presence of the great past. We 
try to realize the situation, the exigencies, of the 
year 1686. We look forward a century, through 
perils and distress, and yet ever over heroism and 
invincible resolution, to the fruition of hope in the 
foundation of the Commonwealth and the adoption 
of the Constitution, and then down over another 
hundred years to the marvellous development and 
power exemplified in the present time. The very 
walls about us are eloquent beyond human speech. 
The ancient memorials tell the wonderful story. 
Again we seem to feel the inspiring presence of 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 9 1 

the noble men and women whose dust has long min- 
gled with the soil whereon they trod, and whereon 
they reared sacred edifices and the still grander 
temple of universal freedom. 

The Puritan had regarded the royal charter as 
his palladium. For fifty years it had been his 
refuge from oppression and wrong. Escaping from 
ecclesiastical tyranny in England, he was zealous in 
propagating in America his own system of faith, in 
crushing out every form of heresy, and in strength- 
enino; his church asfainst the wicked assaults of its 
enemies. To hold fast to the faith, he maintained, 
assured life and strength; to tolerate liberality or in- 
dulgence toward another, yielded inevitably to death 
and hopeless ruin. He came to settle in America 
that he might enjoy the liberty of worshipping God 
according to the dictates of his own conscience, and 
he welcomed only those to equal privileges whose 
consciences worked in harmony with his own. Men 
of such mould and spirit were the first settlers of 
Boston. 

We may well, then, conceive the horror and in- 
dignation with which, when the charter had been 
destroyed, the Puritan regarded the advent of Sir 
Edmund Andros, captain-general and governor-in- 
chief, glittering in scarlet and lace, and charged 
with the illegal and despotic commission from his 
sovereign king to force the establishment of the 
odious Church of England in Boston. Exclusive 
as was the Puritan himself, the act of the king 
and the bishops in overriding the wishes of the 



92 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

people and foisting upon them and into their own 
meeting-house the institutions they hated and re- 
sisted, was unjustifiable persecution and tyranny. 

But the end we now see was sure to come. The 
grand destiny of the future overleaped the bounds 
the Puritan would place. 

" Himself from God he could not free ; 
He builded better than he knew ; 
The conscious stone to beauty grew." 

Freedom for one became freedom for all. The 
way to the separation of Church and State was 
opened in Massachusetts. A hundred years later, 
explicit declaration was written into her constitu- 
tion ; and the union of the people in the grand re- 
public of America was founded with the recognition 
of this providential and beneficent principle. 

The storm had raged, the heavens had been 
overcast, the roar of the conflict had disturbed 
the land; but the broad resplendent sunshine that 
blesses us to-day fell all the more gratefully and 
benignantly upon the people who had endured 
the tempest and welcomed the glory of the bright- 
ening sky. Churches, sects, creeds, opinions — all 
and of every kind — are received in complete tol- 
eration. Through and over all is spread a warmer 
spirit of kindness and brotherly love, ministering 
in blessed charity to the down-trodden, the dis- 
tressed, the broken-hearted ; rearing splendid tem- 
ples of beneficence that carry support and relief 
to the unfortunate, reformation to the vicious, in- 
struction to the ignorant, and lifting this noble 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 93 

work far above the petty contentions of sectarian 
difference into the pure atmosphere of the gospel 
of Christ. 

In so grand a position of power and beneficence 
does our beloved Commonwealth stand. I should 
be indeed faithless to her highest impulses and her 
heartfelt convictions did I not here and now recog- 
nize her obligation to the stern and godly men of 
yore, who built the ancient churches and gathered 
the people within their walls to worship God, to 
praise Him for His abundant blessings, and to in- 
voke His great mercy and favor upon their under- 
taking in the cause of religion and liberty. 

But the people of to-day cannot safely disregard 
their duty. If there shall be a great and honorable 
future, if the celebration of the next century's anni- 
versary shall be crowned with renewed glory and 
continued peace and safety, it will be only because 
the sons hold in sacred trust what the fathers so 
grandly established and transmitted. The interests 
of religion lie near the life of the State. While the 
framers of our Constitution declared absolute toler- 
ation and protection for all forms of religious faith, 
they put them in union with unqualified recogni- 
tion that " the public worship of God and instruc- 
tion of piety, religion, and morality promote the 
happiness of the people and the security of a 
republican government." Though the State has 
no established church, her people cannot neglect 
the interests of religion without grave danger to 
good order and security. By no means have we 



94 KING S CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

any right to claim that it is a matter of no conse- 
quence whether public worship and religious teach- 
ino-s are maintained or not. That is not the 

O 

guaranty from the past. Liberty is not license. 
Independence is by no means indifference. Privi- 
lege affords no release from duty. 

Bitter, indeed, may be our scoffing and ridicule 
over the austerity and illiberality of the Puritan 
fathers ; but merciless will be the condemnation 
coming generations will visit upon us, if w'hile we 
boast of our freedom and flaunt our defiance of 
ecclesiastical control, ignorance, immorality, corrup- 
tion, selfishness, and worldliness shall have despoiled 
us of our patrimony and blighted the prospects of 
the future. Bring religion and politics together 
into the domain of the private cooscience ; let the 
obligations a man owes to the public be tested by 
the standards of justice, of fairness, of integrity, 
of square dealing that characterize honorable inter- 
course among men, — in other words, carry the 
church, your church and mine, and the high in- 
spirations that come from every religious commun- 
ion, into public service and duty, and that union of 
Church and State, incarnating the noblest prin- 
ciples and the purest life, will bring no peril but 
rather unlimited support to our free institutions, 
and assure the stability of the State. 

Says De Tocqueville : " Despotism may govern 
without religious faith, but liberty cannot. The 
United States must be religious to be free. Society 
must be destroyed unless the Christian moral tie be 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 95 

strengthened in proportion as the political tie is 
relaxed ; and what can be done with a people who 
are their own masters, if they are not submissive 
to Deity ? " 

I am honored in the invitation to participate in 
the celebration of the establishment of this ancient 
church, and to it I respond in all the earnestness of 
my heart. No occasion like the present can pass 
without touching closely in sympathy all the people 
in Massachusetts. She abides to-day in her loyalty 
to the grand and noble deeds and sentiments of 
the past; and all the honor of her future lests in 
fidelity to God's eternal laws of justice, of holiness, 
of purity, and of uprightness, for which everywhere 
the true church shall be consecrated and revered in 
the hearts of men. 

The original hymn by Dr. WiLLlAM Everett, to the 
tune of St. Thomas, was then sung by the choir and con- 
gregation ; after which the Chairman said : — 

"The past of Massachusetts is rich with moral and intel- 
lectual wealth, of which this church has contributed its full 
share. We call on the President of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society to draw from the storehouse of his 
abundant knowledge the fruits of wisdom and instruction. 
Apart from our reverent relations to him as our frequent 
guide and teacher in the pulpit of this church, and as a 
member of the First Church of Boston, from which we 
welcome a voice of sympathy, there is a historical propriety 
in his presence and aid. The rooms of the Massachusetts 
Historical Society stand on the north side of our burial- 
ground, on the site of the home of the last provincial cler- 
gyman of this church, — the Rev, Dr. Caner, who at the 



96 king's chapel, boston. 

Revolution fled the country. This property was confis- 
cated by the State, and eventually came into the possession 
of the Historical Society. In either building Dr. Ellis 
stands the representative and the exponent of the richest 
associations of our political and ecclesiastical history." 

ADDRESS. 

BY THE REV. GEORGE EDWARD ELLIS, D.D., LL.D., 

President of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 

Our local, historical, and memorial celebrations 
are becoming very numerous, as is realized by those 
privileged to take part in them. One of our New 
England mothers of a household, in the olden time 
of large families, began with a loving observance 
of the recurring birthdays of her children, as they 
came one by one or in pairs. But as they multi- 
plied, so as to require a festive occasion almost in 
each month, she decided to take a general average 
of them, and to make the annual ThanksQ:ivin2: 
Day a very happy one for them all. We may yet 
have to group some of our commemoration days. 

But the first question to be asked of each of 
these occasions is as to what gives it its special 
interest, significance, or importance. So we ask of 
this occasion. And we distinguish at once between 
two elements in it, one of which we put all aside. 
The old feuds and rancors of religious controversy, 
the animosities and alienations attendant upon the 
planting of a church of the English model in a 
Puritan colony, are left by us to the past, — to 



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97 



history. As such, they have a full and impartial 
record on the admirably wrought pages of the first 
volume of the history of this Chapel by your present 
minister. 

There is quite another point of view for our re- 
trospect. Nature, as we see it in the 6ld woods, 
gently covers with moss and creeping growths the 
wounded trunks and stumps in their decay. And 
so may picturesque incidents, touches, and fancies 
come to us as investing the exciting occasion when 
the English Church, with its observances, came 
uninvited here. As we look candidly at the facts, 
the time and occasion had rightfully matured for 
the recognition of the State religion of the realm 
on this peninsula. Even as the strife which was 
opened was the warmest, its incidents and features 
could not have been all grim and sour ; some 
touches of merriment and humor must have re- 
lieved it. Whether that mischief-maker Randolph, 
in writing to the archbishop, used the word " leth- 
argy " instead of " liturgy," as much needed here, or 
whether it was a mistake of the printer, the joke was 
equally an available one. We may trace the serious 
and the humorous incidents of the strife in the 
Diary of the good old Puritan judge Samuel Sewall, 
though what is humor to us was all very serious to 
him. Recall his deep sadness and his stiff resolve, 
when he was asked to sell a plot of his land on the 
ridge opposite this present building for a church. 
" No," said he, " the land belonged formerly to Mr. 
Cotton, the Non-Conformist exile from his mother- 
's 



98 king's chapel, boston. 

church.. He would not wish his land to be used 
for such a purpose." That was reason enough. 
What a touch of home-life there is in the scene 
when his good little boy — afterward Dr. Joseph 
Sewall, of the Old South — wins his father's appro- 
bation by telling him that he had not been beguiled 
by his playmates to peep into the Chapel for a sight 
of the Christmas decorations ! Or mark the satis- 
faction of the judge himself, as he counts the teams 
of hay and wood that come into the town and the 
shops open, though it be Christnias Day. 

Recall vividly and calmly the historic incident 
of the beginning here. This wilderness peninsula 
had been reclaimed for peaceful and thrifty Eng- 
lish homes, through hard toil for fifty-six years, by 
the zeal and manfulness of English exiles, who, 
oppressed by a class of bishops quite unlike those 
known to us, — temporal as well as spiritual lords, 
with their prerogatives and courts, — had sought a 
refuge here. The exiles had memories and smarts 
and sturdy principles. They set up worship and 
methods of their own. Those who had been 
brouo^ht here as little children, and a new genera- 
tion from their stock, had grown into active life on 
the as yet rude stage. Nursed and nurtured amid 
rough stern scenes, under a parental Puritanism, 
this new generation, without the gentle and gracious 
memories of their fathers of the dear old English 
home, had stiffened into more hardness and rigor in 
their religion. The tables were to be turned here, 
exactly inverting the relations between Puritans and 




MRS. REBECCA (TYNG) DUDLEY. 
(Wife of Governor Joseph Dudley.) 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 99 

Churchmen in England. Puritanism was our estab- 
lished church ; Churchmen were dissenters. But 
the shock came. The surpliced priest, and soon 
his "box of whistles" to help out native psalmod}', 
his read prayers, his changing attitudes in worship, 
his saints' days, including that for the " holy martyr 
Charles I.," who belonged to quite another fellow- 
ship for the Puritans, — all these came ; and they 
brought consternation with them. But they came 
rightfully and opportunely. There was a constit- 
uency and material here for an English church. It 
was a critical and transitional period for the Puri- 
tan commonwealth. The colony charter had been 
vacated ; and the Crown had strongly asserted its 
prerogatives here, with new organic rules, backed 
by its official emissaries. There were here sworn 
servants of the monarch, officers of the customs, of 
the army and the navy, coming and going in the 
military operations of the time. The portraits and 
insignia, which for this occasion adorn this edifice ; 
the tablet of the royal arms, once attached to the 
house of the royal governor, now suspended before 
me, — are all emblems to us, so out of place for a 
Puritan meeting-house, of residents here who de- 
sired their own place and form of worship. Besides 
these, it is to be remembered, were inhabitants en- 
gaged in commerce and trade, who had not severed 
their ties of love and loyalty to the mother-country. 
And yet, further, there were here not a few native 
born, alienated from the doctrine and discipline of 
Puritanism, who could not comply with the exacted 



lOO KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

conditions of baptism for their children or with 
the terms of admission to the communion. Many 
of these sought the milder ways of the English 
Church. It was on such as these last that Judge 
Sewall kept a watchful eye. It grieved him to hear 
of the tolling church-bell or the reading of the sol- 
emn burial-service over some who he thoucrht had 
not died in the odor of sanctity. 

Rightfully, as I have said, was the Church of 
England planted in this town. Of course, it caused 
grief and anxiety here to others than those who 
were rigid in bigotry. We may well believe that 
there were many of clear, vigorous, mental powers 
and of a generous spirit, who saw in this recogni- 
tion of the royal presence and sovereignty in a 
privileged State church the tightening of a foreign 
power over a previously independent people. It 
was a sign, and they dreaded what might come of 
it. The displeasure natural here was greatly imbit- 
tered by some arbitrary and offensive acts of the 
royal governor. He acted on the assumption that 
the town and people were bound to provide him 
with a place and aids in his worship. He so ap- 
propriated the South Church against the remon- 
strances, and to the annoyance and discomfort, of its 
proprietors. The times were then distracted. Im- 
portant public papers and records are lost. It does 
not appear by what method, whether of purchase 
or allowance from the town or by seizure, Andros 
planted the edifice preceding this on the corner of 
the first burial-ground of Boston. 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. lOI 

That wooden and this precious stone edifice 
served the purpose of the Church of England for 
nearly ninety years. The " King's Lecturer," whose 
presence gave dignity to the ministrations at the 
Royal Chapel, received his stipend from the Crown. 
The resources of the congregation provided for 
the associate rector, and for the current expenses. 
Then came the war of the Revolution, extinguish- 
ing the royal power in our land. The rector of the 
Chapel and a large portion of his loyal flock, the 
proprietors of this edifice, left the country, never to 
come back again. The edifice escaped destruction 
or insult from the returning inhabitants after the 
siege, though they were smarting under the demoli- 
tion of one and the defilement of three other of 
their sanctuaries. 

The South Church, now standing at the corner 
of Milk Street, had been so wrecked and polluted 
by the British soldiers that it was only after five 
years that its impoverished owners were able to 
cleanse and restore it. In the interval, the con- 
gregation worshipped in this deserted Chapel; and 
here their minister, I\.cv. Dr. Eckley, was ordained. 
Of what followed here — the consequent dropping 
away from the English Church, the change in the 
renewal of the ministry and in your ritual for wor- 
ship — you will soon have an exhaustive, candid, 
impartial, and interesting narration in the second 
volume of the historical work by your minister. 
The remnant left of the old proprietors of the 
edifice, joined by others, renewed here much of 



I02 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

the previous form of worship. But the liturgical 
books in pews and reading-desk were no longer ser- 
viceable. The young man, James Freeman, who 
was invited here as reader and preacher, objected 
not only to the prayers for the King of England, 
but to the forms of addressing^ the Kins: of kingrs. 
There was then no organized Protestant Episcopal 
Church in the United States, and ordination by its 
ritual could not be obtained here for ministers. 
There was much confusion and variance of opinion 
over the whole country on the subject. The rector 
of Christ Church in Philadelphia, afterward the be- 
loved and venerated Bishop White, with some asso- 
ciates, had .proposed a method for the continuance 
of his communion in this country without help 
from English bishops, and had also prepared a book 
as a proposed manual for worship, which afterward 
received but slight respect. The changes made in 
the Book of Common Prayer for use in this Chapel 
were made deliberately and conscientiously. The 
most important of them were the omission of terms 
of speech, words, phrases, and sentences which were 
not drawn from the Scriptures, and the substitution 
for them of those more strictly Scriptural. All 
sacerdotal, hierarchical, and ecclesiastical elements 
were also eliminated from the pages of the book. 
It is for those who are to follow me to retrace the 
later history of the congregation, and to commemo- 
rate its ministers. 

I have been asked to say a few words about Dr. 
Greenwood. Most gladly do I do so. Of all the 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. IQI 

loved and venerated men who now in thickenino- 
fellowship gather about my memory, there was no 
one of a more saintly, apostolic, grave loveliness, 
dignity, and beauty than Dr. Greenwood. Pardon 
me if my reference to him is personal. I recall him 
when he was just closing his first ministry at the 
New South Church in Summer Street, — a delicate, 
frail man, seeming to have but a short tenure of 
life, afflicted with that pulmonary weakness which 
followed him through his whole course. I was at 
the age of five years. I distinctly remember him, 
as after being housed through the whole winter he 
came out to his meeting-house, and, unable to climb 
the stairs of the pulpit, stood by the communion 
table and read a brief letter of thanks to his congre- 
gation for their kindness in having furnished him 
the means of foreign travek His beloved physician, 
the venerated and endeared Dr. Jackson, had pro- 
nounced him in such a condition that even if his 
life were prolonged he would never preach again. 
On leaving that service he stopped at my father's 
house, a few doors from the church, and there bap- 
tized a little infant, the late minister of the First 
Church in Boston. I recall one of those philosophi- 
cal discussions in the nursery after that occasion, 
such as will take place among children, — when we 
debated the question whether one would rather be 
that little infant, who had the prospect of a long 
and happy life, or that poor sick, frail minister who 
seemed so near the grave ; and we concluded that 
it would be better to be the minister, for he was so 



I04 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

good that he was sure to go right to heaven as an 
angel the moment he died. 

Years passed, and Dr. Greenwood as your min- 
ister lived to exchange pulpits at Northampton 
with that little infant! 

Fifty years ago this month, I stood for the first 
time in this pulpit to help Dr. Greenwood in his 
infirmity ; and here, before I had a charge of my 
own, I preached for several weeks and months while 
he was absent through the winter at Santa Cruz. 
I had frequent opportunities of intimacy with his 
sweet and lovely spirit and character. The tones 
of his voice were almost a sermon and a prayer. 
And perhaps I express the feeling of many, or of 
some at least who remember him here, when I re- 
peat an anecdote. As I had been preaching here 
one Sunday during his absence, on passing out of 
the aisle I was with the late Charles P. Curtis, who 
I think was then an officer of the church. He pro- 
nounced a few kind words about my youthful per- 
formance ; but he added, " I would rather hear Dr. 
Greenwood preach the same sermon every Sunday 
in the year than hear anybody else in the pulpit." 

The Minister then said : "It has been recalled to you 
how peculiarly the history of this church and that of one 
of the Puritan churches of this city have been connected 
in the past, at the beginning of the two centuries. Again, 
midway in their course, the Old South Church and King's 
Chapel had special relations. It is peculiarly fit, therefore, 
that at the beginning of our third century the minister of 
the Old South should speak to us." 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. IO5 

ADDRESS. 

BY THE REV. GEORGE ANGIER GORDON, 

Minister of the Old South Church, 

The history of the connection of King's Chapel 
and the Old South Church is very interesting indeed. 
It has been necessarily anticipated by the speakers 
who have preceded me, but it is interesting enough 
for me to call your attention to it again. 

King's Chapel, like most other churches, was born 
poor. It came into the world before it had an ec- 
clesiastical home. It organized itself into a church 
before it had a place wherein to worship. In May 
of 1686 the first minister came to Boston, and dur- 
ing that summer and fall and winter of 1686 and 
1687, as you have been told, the congregation wor- 
shipped in the library of the town-house. That 
bare and meagre room did not seem quite con- 
sonant with the dignity and magnificence of the 
Episcopal service. What was to be done } To 
build they were not able, but to beg they were 
not ashamed. There were then three flourishing 
Congregational churches in Boston, — the First, 
Second, and the Third, or what is now known as 
the Old South. The Old South, or the Third 
Church, had the best meeting-house, and was sit- 
uated in the best part of the town, which the royal 
Episcopal governor was not slow to appreciate. So 
he sent a request to the proprietors of the Old 
South Meeting-house for permission to hold service 



io6 king's chapel, boston. 

in that edifice, and an order to adjust all their ser- 
vices to suit his convenience. Both request and 
order were stoutly opposed. The demand was made 
again and again, but met with the same response. 
Finally, the Governor marched to the church at the 
head of a party ; and although the sexton had given 
his word that he would grant no admission, never- 
theless he did, and rang the bell. It was in March, 
1687, when the Governor and his party entered the 
church; and for about two years they maintained 
joint occupancy of the Old South Meeting-house 
with the regular proprietors of the church. Now, 
the sum of this connection seems to be that King's 
Chapel was poor ; it was not to blame for that. It 
wanted a good meeting-house ; it was not to blame 
for that. It gave the preference to the Old South ; 
it was not to blame for that. But when it came to 
securing admission by force, and maintaining its 
standing by force, it seems to me that it was some- 
what to blame for that. 

The second incident in the connection of the two 
churches, perhaps, you will be more pleased to hear 
of. During the siege of Boston, in 1775, as you all 
know, the meeting-house of the Old South Church 
was applied to base uses. The congregation was 
turned out ; and their pastor. Rev. Mr. Hunt, left the 
city for Northampton, where he died in December. 
This was, indeed, a sad time for the Old South con- 
gregation. They were without a meeting-house, and 
without a pastor. They were turned into the street, 
and were homeless wanderers. The organization was 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. lO/ 

kept intact by a few resolute, devout, faithful men ; 
and in the hour of their extremity King's Chapel, 
with Christian hospitality and with the most delight- 
ful feeling of fraternity, opened her doors and bade 
them welcome to hold service within the walls of 
this edifice. The offer was gladly accepted; and 
Mr. Joseph Eckley, then preaching in town, was 
asked to preach to the Old South congregation. 
Their first service was held here Nov. 9, 1777 ; and 
for a period of five years, with one interruption, the 
Old South congregation continued to worship in 
this edifice. In 1779, Mr. Joseph Eckley was here 
ordained as minister of the Third Church, and con- 
tinued to serve that church acceptably for over thirty 
years. Nothing is known of this service of ordina- 
tion ; if any one has any records of it, or information 
concerning it, they will be gladly received by the Old 
South Church. You will see, if the first incident 
stands somewhat to the dishonor of King's Chapel, 
the second, in its enduring Christian fraternity, is 
more than an offset to the arrogance of the first. 

Now, this historical little sermon seems to have 
an application to the two congregations. The first 
is this : If ever King's Chapel should become poor 
again, if it should ever lose its meeting-house, if it 
should ever look abroad among the churches of this 
city for a temporary home, and if it should again 
give preference to the Old South, why that would 
seem very natural to us ; and if it should come in 
the bland and insinuating manner of these modern 
days and ask for admission, I have no doubt the 



io8 ■ king's chapel, boston. 

society and the sexton would be very accommo- 
dating. But if it should come in the manner of the 
ancient time, I am afraid that the success which it 
had in 1687 would not be repeated in 1887. This 
is the first point. 

The second is this : The Old South cherishes 
the expectation that if a body of men should again 
desecrate and dishonor its meetinof-house and turn 
its congregation into the street, and if it should lose 
its pastor, King's Chapel would generously open its 
doors again. If a pastor were to be ordained and 
installed, and a contentious Orthodox ecclesiastical 
council to be entertained, the Old South still cher- 
ishes the hope that the hosj^itality and forbearance 
of King's Chapel would again be found equal to 
the emergency. 

The version of Psalm xxiii., by Rev. Cotton Mather, was 
then sung to " York Tune," after which the Minister said : 
" The President of Harvard University stands officially in 
close relations with the churches of Massachusetts histor- 
ically, pre-eminently so with the churches of the city of 
Boston ; and of those churches, none perhaps is more 
closely related than this to the University in the number 
of students it has furnished thereto, and of graduates it has 
received back during these two hundred years. But in com- 
ing to King's Chapel, the President of Harvard University 
is coming home to the church which his father served, to 
the church of his own youth ; and on this historic occa- 
sion it may be permitted me to add, that he comes in the 
sixth generation from ancestors whose portraits hang on 
these walls to-day, being in that degree of descent from 
Governor Joseph Dudley." 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. lOQ 



ADDRESS. 

BY CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT, LL.D., 

President of Harvard University. 

It seems to me that we should speak of this 
church to-day as something more than an historical 
monument. To many of us it has been a living and 
a working church. I will say a few words to you, 
simply as a son of this church. 

This place is full of touching memories for me, 
and I doubt not for many others here present who 
were brought up in this church, but who have been 
separated from it in after life because their homes 
or their occupations were at a distance. When we 
children of the church return, we can hardly see the 
people that are actually before us, so distinct is our 
vision of the young men and maidens, the old men 
and children, who sat in these pews when we were 
young. We can hardly hear the choir of to-day for 
listening to familiar voices of other days, hushed 
long ago. From this desk there speaks to us a 
deep, solemn monotone which thrilled the listener's 
ear forty years since. Up this aisle there come pro- 
cessions very plain to memory's sight, some joyous 
and some mournful, coming to wedding, to chris- 
tening, or to funeral ; and in these companies of 
kindred and friends we look with a kind of com- 
passionate interest upon our former selves. We 
stand aside as it were for a moment and witness 
the passing by of the generation to which we be- 



no KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

long, — the extinction of the former generation, and 
the oncoming of the succeeding. 

We think very tenderly of these consecrated walls, 
as if they had some tender benediction to shed upon 
the baptisms, betrothals, marriages, burials, which 
have marked here for us the chief events in our 
family lives. And then we remember that seven 
generations have had these same precious associa- 
tions with this ancient church, and find our imagin- 
ations unable to picture the smiles and tears, the 
happiness and grief, its two houses on this spot have 
witnessed. 

There are more public grounds for cherishing 
kindly thoughts of the families who in the earlier 
generations worshipped God in this place. As has 
been called to our attention this afternoon, they 
were largely loyalists as well as devoted members of 
the Anglican Church. Now, the total loss of any 
cause which men and women have served with pas- 
sionate loyalty is always pathetic. The loyalists got 
hard measure in the Revolution. Many of them suf- 
fered exile and the confiscation of their property, 
only to find the coldest of welcomes in the mother- 
country or in the still loyal provinces. On this 
consecrated ground, after the lapse of a century, 
we Republicans cannot help sympathizing with 
the distress and personal sorrow which the long- 
continued peril and final overthrow of the royal- 
ist cause brought to many a King's Chapel family. 
Moreover, we perceive that our modern Republican 
loyalty to that personified ideal which we call our 




WILLIAM BURNET. 

(Governor 1728, 1729.) 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. Ill 

country is a virtue close akin to the older loyalty 
to idealized personages — to kings, queens, and 
princes- — which the families connected with this 
church illustrated in the midst of an unsympathetic 
community. 

Finally, the conservatism of this church makes 
her scattered children very tender toward her ; for 
when they return to her at rare intervals they find 
her unchanged. Religious opinions and practices 
may have undergone rapid transformations in the 
outer world ; we who have been separated from the 
old church may have changed our own views ; but 
we come back hither to find the harbor just as we 
left it, and as our fathers knew it. The world could 
not spare its adventurers and pioneers ; but for one 
pioneer it needs a thousand conservers, in order 
that all the good the past has won or the present 
wins may be held fast and safely transmitted. As a 
rule, the conserver is more lovable than the critic or 
the pioneer. This church is a conserver. 

The Minister then said : " The great communion of the 
Episcopal Church in America has its share in these tradi- 
tions, and its members are partakers in the early memories 
of this Chapel. It was therefore hoped that it might have 
been possible for the Right Reverend Bishop of the Pro- 
testant Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts to be with us 
to-day as its official head ; but his official engagements 
have called him elsewhere. The rector of Trinity Church, 
who will now speak to us, comes not alone as the repre- 
sentative of that communion, but as the minister of a 
church which sprang from this in the early days." 



112 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

ADDRESS. 

BY THE REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, D.D., 

Rector of Trinity Church. 

During the past seventeen years I have owed a 
great many of the pleasures which I have enjoyed 
to my connection with Trinity Church. I owe the 
privilege of being here to-day, and the fact that I am 
the rector of that church, to a certain scene which 
took place on a bright April morning in the year 
1734, when Mr. Commissary Price, who was then 
rector of King's Chapel, went down to the corner 
of Summer Street and Bishop's Alley and laid the 
corner-stone of Trinity Church. One year after 
that time, at the same place, in the building which 
had been erected during the year, the services of 
Trinity Church were inaugurated by a service held 
and a sermon preached by the same Mr. Commis- 
sary Price ; and the life of the new church at once be- 
gan, under the rectorship of Rev. Addington Daven- 
port, who up to that time had been in some way as- 
sociated with the services in King's Chapel, but who 
then became the first minister of Trinity Church. 
And so our histories are bound together. 

Mr. Davenport is now to us a very dim and misty 
person, but everything that we learn of him is alto- 
gether to his credit; and he gave at once to the 
services that were held at Trinity Church and to 
that new parish a very dignified and honorable posi- 
tion. He stands to us now mainly as a link to con- 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. II3 

nect the lives of the two parishes, and to let us feel 
that we belong to the same line of succession to 
which the parishioners of King's Chapel belong. 

When one has a happy life, he feels thankful to 
those who gave him a chance to live that life. And 
when a parish has lived the happy life which Trinity 
Church has lived, while trying in its way and time to 
do some useful work, it is thankful to those who gave 
it the beginning of its existence and the opportunity 
to do that work ; and so we are thankful to those 
from whom you sprang, and from whom we sprang, 
that they founded Trinity Church in that year 1734. 

I have tried to think what is the real relationship 
between the King s Chapel of to-day and the Trinity 
Church to which you have given your invitation. 
It is not easy to fasten it. It is not simply that 
you are the mother-church and we are the daughter- 
church. It is something like the relation which has 
come to exist between the life of our own country 
and the life of the England across the seas. We 
talk in a pleasant way about England being the 
mother-country and of this country of ours being 
the daughter-country ; but when we come to ex- 
amine this and to study the relationship, we find 
that we have not stated it exactly as it is. The 
England of to-day is not the mother of which the 
United States is the daughter. The England of 
to-day and the United States of America are sister 
nations; and the mother of us both lies two cen- 
turies back, — in the rich life of the seventeenth 
century, out of which we and so much of the best 

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114 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

of English life have sprung. England is the daugh- 
ter who has remained at home ; we are the daughter 
who has gone abroad. We are not her daughter, 
and she is not our mother. 

So it is — is it not ? — with reference to the rela- 
tion which exists between your parish and the par- 
ish which I have the pleasure of representing. We 
are both the children of that peculiar English life — 
the life of the English Church transported to this 
land and planted here — which has been so felici- 
tously described to us this afternoon. You are 
daughters of that history; we are daughters of that 
history, not of a daughter parish. 

Let us look for a moment on the face of our mother. 
She does not shine in the history of America. The 
attempt to establish the English Church in the col- 
ony of Massachusetts in those older days was not 
a successful, happy, nor shining part of our his- 
tory ; and yet I am sure that there was something 
that passed from it into the mental, ecclesiastical, 
social, and perhaps even the political life of America 
which it would be a pity to have lost. Our mother, 
the English Church, trying to establish herself in 
the colonies, came somewhat awkwardly, as might 
have been expected. She tried to plant herself in 
the midst of an antagonism that made her awkward 
and ungraceful in her coming. But she did bring 
with her something of that profound reverence for 
the past, something of that deep sense of religious 
order, something which she had clung to as the 
true form of devotion, something which had all the 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. II5 

respectability of form and communion which char- 
acterized the life of the EngHsh Church throughout 
her history and experience in the old land. The 
trouble was that she came and remained a foreigner; 
and just as soon as the foreigner was no longer to be 
tolerated, she passed out of the life which had been 
gradually acquiring its own national character. The 
beauty of her life was that these two children she 
left behind — King's Chapel and Trinity Church — 
were thoroughly American, in spite of her old asso- 
ciations and her unfortunate life in a foreign land. 
She stamped upon those two congregations a dis- 
tinctively American character. I do not learn — 
though those who are wiser than I am may correct 
me — that the congregation of King's Chapel was 
largely broken up by that exodus in which the rec- 
tor of King's Chapel departed, carrying so much 
with him that was representative of her history. 
Certainly the body of the congregation remained, 
and perpetuated the life which has resulted in the 
history which has come from that day to this. And 
I do feel proud that the congregation of Trinity 
was the only congregation of the Episcopal Church 
anywhere in this neigborhood which did so deeply 
retain association with the life of the colonies and 
the cause with which they were identified that she 
had their spirit of independence, that she preserved 
her service throughout the whole of the Revolution- 
ary War, and that she formed the nucleus around 
which the life of the Episcopal Church was gathered 
after the war had closed. 



ii6 king's chapel, boston. 

So our mother the English Church at least suc- 
ceeded in this, that she made others American, if 
she did not become American herself. She suc- 
ceeded in inspiring that spirit which must always 
be cherished, — that while the great Christian faith 
is one everywhere throughout the world, it is one 
part of Christian duty, and must be one element 
of a church's successful life, to identify herself 
with the national life in the midst of which she 
lives ; that she shall sympathize with every na- 
tional misfortune and wrong, and shall always be 
ready to rejoice in the progress of true useful- 
ness and the larger happiness of the nation in 
which she belongs. 

I congratulate King's Chapel that its history has 
been a patriotic history from the beginning to the 
end. There was no lack of patriotism so long as 
she sprang from and associated herself with the 
life of the colonies in the days of the Revolution. 
From that time she has had her typical men among 
the noblest, purest, holiest in our American pulpit. 
She has been ever ready to catch the spirit of every 
new cause, — not rash of impulse, not throwing her- 
self into the stream of every enthusiasm of the 
hour, but always ready to sympathize deeply with 
every wrong of the land, and to help every right 
which was striving for assertion. And when the 
great crisis of our history came, she sent her young 
men, — none nobler, none more numerous, from 
any city or country congregation, — she sent her 
young men into the field ; and there they bore testi- 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. I I 7 

mony to the life which they had learned to live here 
at home. 

It is a orreat thins: for a church thus to have been 
associated with a nation's life, — always ready to 
meet each new emergency which called it to its 
work, always ready to be even a little beforehand 
by a general recognition of that which was coming, 
and by preparing her children by the fundamental 
teaching of righteousness and truth that they should 
be ready when the time arrived. 

One looks back over this history of two hundred 
years ; and it is full of such associations as this, — 
the imaorination has so much room to wander in ! 

O 

One of the things to rejoice in on a great occasion 
like this is that this Chapel has stood for two cen- 
turies, imbibing such a multitude of personal ex- 
periences, representing such countless souls that 
have passed out of the world of living men and 
women and are now with God ; that she has striven 
with issues, some of which have been settled, and 
others which have developed into larger issues, 
which have claimed in their turn the souls of men ; 
that she has stood, generation after generation, for 
the simplicity, the dignity, the majesty, and the 
worth of the Christian religion and the Christian 
ministry ; that she has had such men in her pulpit, 
men full of the spirit of Christian faith, righteous- 
ness, and love ; men who, to the congregation which 
listened to them, have represented something more 
than the truth they preached, — the dignity of 
Christian manhood and the sweetness of human 



ii8 king's chapel, boston. 

character. It is a great thing that a pulpit should 
represent, not simply a gospel, but a man ; not 
merely a truth, but a character; not merely doc- 
trines which people are to believe, but also a minis- 
try which should gain the respect of young men 
generation after generation ; that it should teach 
men to believe the truth that the Christian ministry 
is indeed the noblest occupation, the grandest pro- 
fession, in which men can engage. When the time 
shall come, as it certainly will come, that young 
men shall know that truth ; when there shall run 
through our schools and colleges a new perception, 
that, great as are the glories which belong to other 
occupations, — and I would not undervalue them, — 
there is none that can compare with those attach- 
ing to the preaching of the gospel to the children 
of God, — then the voices that have thrilled from 
the pulpit of the King's Chapel shall have a testi- 
mony to bear which shall deepen the impression of 
that truth as it comes home to the minds of young 
men. It shall bear testimony to the way in which 
that truth has been gloriously manifested in the 
lives and characters and speaking experiences of 
those men who have stood here ; who from the 
very fact of being here have preached the nobleness 
of life, the richness of the pursuit of truth, the 
worthlessness of everything that does not some- 
how fasten itself to the law of God, the brother- 
hood of mankind, and the assurance of a universal 
Fatherhood. 

One of the beauties of such a day as this is that 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. I I9 

it takes up a long histoiy, and gathers it together 
within the embrace of great principles. History 
develops itself here and there in a vast multitude of 
incidents and in scattered ways. These commemo- 
rative days take the multitude of the events of his- 
tory and gather them up together, and enfold them 
in the great principles which have been ruling 
chrough them all, and in which they must all find 
their explanation. 

It has been intimated here this afternoon that the 
history of King's Chapel has been a varied one ; 
that men have differed in opinion ; that there have 
been discussion and dispute. It would not be a 
true picture of the thinking Christian world if it 
had been otherwise. It would not have been a true 
life of the Church if it had not represented men 
differing from other men with reference to the 
things which belong, not to the surface, but to the 
very depth and substance of our faith. Let us set 
ourselves, friends, — we who belong to the common 
Church of Christ, — let us set ourselves against the 
false teaching of the times that would disparage 
theology. Let us set ourselves against the false 
sentiment that would speak of theological discus- 
sion as if it were a thing of the past, a blunder in 
its day, and something which the world has out- 
grown. When the world ceases to theologize, — to 
seek for the deepest and inmost truth with regard 
to the innermost nature of God, — there has fallen 
a palsy upon it. Let us rejoice that the history of 
this church represents the thought of earnest men 



I20 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

who have again and again differed from one another 
because they have thought and felt deeply about 
divine things. God has never left the minds of his 
children unstirred. But while they have differed 
from one another, let us rejoice in this, — that we 
are looking back upon the history of men who were 
earnestly seeking after truth. And as that history 
gathers itself into our Christian consciousness to- 
day, let us rejoice that it lets us believe that God 
has vaster purposes In the history of this and of all 
his churches than those who have worked faithfully 
on these problems are able to understand. Who 
believes to-day that the things which took place In 
the beginning of this century have come to a final 
result ? Who believes that the changes which took 
place in connection with this church and its re-for- 
mation at the close of the Revolutionary War have 
come to their final culmination ? Who does not 
feel, as he stands at the close of these two hundred 
years and looks back upon the past, the necessity of 
believing that God out of these many years will 
bring rich results In the future ; that the problems 
which have been reasoned have not yet been solved ? 
Who is not ready to rejoice in every disturbance of 
the past, so far as it has been the work of good and 
earnest men striving to get at the truth of God 
and Jesus Christ } 

How shall we prepare ourselves for that future ? 
Not by reviving old disputes, but by recognizing 
the earnestness which entered Into those disputes, — 
by consecrating ourselves In personal obedience to 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 121 

that Christ whose nature, earnestly studied, has led 
men apart from one another, as they have tried to 
understand that which is beyond the understand- 
ing of men only because it is infinite and cannot 
be reached by their intelligence, not because it is 
denied to their study by any wall of prohibition. 
It seems to me that any one who looks back on the 
past and recognizes in history the great providence 
of God in his dealings with men, — so much deeper 
than men have begun to comprehend, — simply 
wants to say to any church, speaking for his own as 
he speaks for others : Let us go and seek that 
Christ, that infinite Christ, whom we have not be- 
gun to know as we may know him, — that Christ 
who has so much more to show us than he has 
shown ; that Christ who can show himself to us only 
as we give ourselves in absolute obedience to him. 
May that Christ receive from us, in each new period 
of our history, more complete consecration, more 
entire acceptance of him as our Master ; and so may 
we receive from him rich promises of new light, new 
manifestations of his truth, new gifts of his spirit, 
which he has promised to bestow upon those who 
consecrate themselves to him in loving obedience, 
unto the end of time and through all eternity ! If 
one may turn a greeting to a prayer, may I not ask 
for you, as I know you ask for all of our churches, 
a more profound and absolute spirit of conse- 
cration to our master Christ, that in him, and only 
in him, we may seek after and come to his ever 
richer life ? 

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122 king's chapel, BOSTON. 

The Magnificat in F, by B. Tours, was then sung; after 
which the Minister said : " There is one name which to the 
members of this congregation who are now in middle Hfe 
or beyond it, will always be that of the minister of this 
church. Of him, one who has a special right, as the friend 
most closely associated with him in his Christian ministry, 
will now speak to us." 



ADDRESS. 

BY THE REV. JOHN HOPKINS MORISON, D.D. 

The transition from Dr. Greenwood to Dr. Pea- 
body was an easy one, the apostolic succession be- 
ing unbroken in the change from one saintly man 
to another. 

Forty years ago there was no one in our litde 
fraternity who was more universally loved by his 
brethren, or looked up to with a more happy and 
confiding trust than Ephraim Peabody. One could 
hardly be with him, even for a little time, without 
feeling that here was a man absolutely honest and 
truthful. There was something about him which 
at first, and then more and more as we knew him 
better, gave us a sense of largeness, — of a man 
made on a large scale, and from his very constitu- 
tion incapable of lending himself to anything small. 
The bare suggestion of such a thing could find no 
place — not even a hiding-place — in his pure and 
generous mind. In connection with this largeness 
was a delicacy of perception, which made him pecu- 
liarly sensitive to the finer influences of nature and 




JONATHAN BELCHER. 

(Governor 1730-1741.) 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 23 

society; which enabled him to read intuitively the 
characters of men around him as in a book, and 
which brought him into the closest sympathy with 
what is finest in literature, and above all with what 
is most tender, far-reaching, and inspiring in the life 
and teachings of our Saviour, These great quali- 
ties showed themselves especially in the faculty of 
entering into the condition and needs of others with 
a wisdom which can come only from above, and 
which then can be applied only by the watchful 
care and insight that are prompted by unselfish 
sympathies and affections. These were the domi- 
nant features in the character of our friend. 

In his early preaching, an occasional hearer might 
at first recognize only the style of thought and ex- 
pression which came to him with his Puritan birth 
and training, and which might give the impression 
of a persistent and merciless severity. But as he 
goes on, the hard tones of the preacher melt into 
pathos. An unspeakable tenderness pervades his 
whole nature, as he places before his hearers images 
of moral danger, of Christian faith and love, of pa- 
tience under suffering, or of hope in death, which 
touch every heart, and sometimes seem almost to 
suspend the breathing of the audience as they lis- 
ten tearfully to his words. 

Later in life he changed this mode of preaching. 
"I have got tired," he said, "of rhetoric even in 
speeches. The truth ! We have got finally to stand 
upon it; and I thank no man for trying to glorify 
or hide it by his rhetoric." With this conviction 



124 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

growing upon him, he gradually gave up the picto- 
rial illustrations which he had employed with a fac- 
ulty for word-painting in which he was surpassed, so 
far as I know, by no preacher since the days of Jere- 
my Taylor. The consequence was that in his later 
sermons his imagination showed itself less in separ- 
ate and extended illustrations, and infused its color- 
ing more, like the veins of some beautiful marble, 
through the entire fabric. In reading them, we 
seem at times to be brought once more within the 
charm of that genial, diffusive nature which spread 
itself out over those who were with him like a sum- 
mer's day. The mellowness of his ripening affec- 
tions, his calmer wisdom, and richer thought gave 
tone and character alike to his private conversation 
and his public instructions. Compared with his for- 
mer writings, his later sermons are marked by a 
severer taste, and at the same time a greater free- 
dom of expression. We feel as we go on the 
all-pervading presence of a more comprehensive 
wisdom, a greater depth and freshness of feeling, a 
more subdued solemnity and tenderness, an imagi- 
nation enriched by the studies and experiences of 
life, and working as a vitalizing energy through the 
whole living texture of his thought. 

And as his preaching, such also was the man. 
Truthfulness, absolute truthfulness, was the con- 
trolling principle of his being. This alone could 
satisfy either his mind or his heart. This truth- 
fulness of soul in its elevation and expansiveness 
bore him up, and opened before him a sphere in 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 25 

which he found room for the exercise and free 
play of all the faculties with which he had been 
so largely endowed. 

I cannot think of him without having uppermost 
in my mind a sense of largeness of nature, and, in- 
separably connected with this, a certain fineness of 
texture running through his whole intellectual, moral, 
and emotional being. These two qualities of large- 
ness and delicacy, with the attributes which of neces- 
sity go with them in a nature so finely and liberally 
endowed, are the surest tokens of greatness, as they 
reveal themselves in a man's daily conduct and in 
the great opportunities and crises of life. It has 
been my privilege to know many of the great men, 
many of the most thoroughly consecrated and self- 
sacrificing, of all who during the last fifty years 
have helped to make this community what it is. 
Some of these men have been known and honored 
throughout the world, and some have been hardly 
known beyond the little neighborhood in which 
their lot was cast. But among them all, I call to 
mind no one who could better bear the test of great- 
ness here suggested than the modest pastor who 
" in simplicity and godly sincerity " ministered at 
this altar, and died a few days more than thirty 
years ago. Not as the world judges, I know, but 
in the elements of true greatness as illustrated by 
our great Teacher, I have known no greater man 
than he. In the largeness and fineness which per- 
vaded all his faculties and made them what they 
were ; in the " sound wisdom " which goes so deep 



126 king's chapel, boston. 

and reaches so far ; in the ruling motives of conduct, 
and in the sympathies and affections which " void of 
offence towards God and man" give breadth and 
sweetness, and throw around one an unnamed but 
irresistible attractiveness and charm, — I have 
known no greater man than he. 

There is no time now to prove what I have said 
by the analysis of what our friend was as shown in 
his acts and words. But lest it should seem the 
extravagance of a partisan or a personal friend, I 
give the testimony of a very able man, who belongs 
to a different profession and a different branch of 
the church, and who never heard Dr. Peabody 
preach, but who knew him well for many years, and 
at times was brought into very intimate relations 
with him. After speaking of some of his remark- 
able traits, especially, as he says, " the keenest in- 
sight into character I ever knew," so that "his 
estimate of men was almost infallible," he adds ; " Of 
all the men I ever knew, he was the one from whom 
I learned the most on questions of conduct, who im- 
pressed me most powerfully by his remarks on the 
mysteries and trials of life, and from whom I got the 
most aid in trouble, and the most light in the diffi- 
cult pathways which are common to all." 

This comes from one who had known him long 
and well in the more private and personal relations. 
To those who thus met him alone in his confiden- 
tial moments, there was something very deep and 
very uplifting and inspiring. The great things of 
this world become of small account. We are taken 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 



127 



up into a higher realm. We see in him an expres- 
sion of reverence and of loving trust such as some- 
times settles down on the face of a thoughtful child. 
We feel ourselves compassed about by a diviner 
order. It is as if we had been brouo^ht before Him 
who, when his disciples had been disputing who 
should be greatest among them, "called unto him 
a little child and set him in the midst of them." 
And from the lips of the great Master we seem to 
hear and to understand as never before the words, 
" For of such is the kinQ:dom of heaven." 



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The Minister then said : " Before we join in singing 
the hymn which has been written for this occasion by our 
friend and fellow-worshipper, it will be read by one who 
has an ancestral claim to share in this service, — the grand- 
son and namesake of the Warden who for more than fifty 
years gave this church a loyal service exceeding that of 
any other single member of the parish in the long line, and 
whose monument is on these walls, — Colonel Joseph May, 
And then the minister by whose side Colonel May stood 
from youth to age, — from the time when the young 
Reader came here as yonder portrait represents him, to 
the venerable years which his bust indicates, — whose more 
than half a century in this church has left a fresh and 
imperishable impress, will speak again to this people by 
the filial lips of Dr. James Freeman Clarke." 

The original hymn by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was 
then read by the Rev. Joseph May, of Philadelphia, and 
sung to the tune of Tallis' Evening Hymn by the congre- 
gation, after which followed the 



128 king's chapel, boston. 



ADDRESS. 

BY THE REV. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, D.D., 

Minister of the Church of the Disciples, Boston. 

Twice in my life I have seen this Chapel as 
full as it is to-day. Once was a great while ago, 
after the declaration of peace with Great Britain. 
I cannot pretend to remember much ; but I do re- 
member, as a little boy, being very much surprised 
by seeing so many people in this building, and by 
seeine such an extended choir on each side of the 
oro-an. The other occasion was when Edward 
Everett returned from Europe, and Dr. Freeman — 
who had a talent for discovering genius and ability 
in young men, and a great admiration of genius and 
ability wherever it was found — asked him to preach 
in this pulpit on Christmas Day ; and not only was 
every seat full, but this middle aisle was filled with 
people standing. Dr. Freeman admired Buckmin- 
ister, he admired Dr. Channing, he admired James 
Walker, — all men younger than himself, — and was 
very fond of having them here. 

But it is, perhaps, a privilege which belongs to 
me, to remember a few of those shadowy forms 
whom our friend President Eliot spoke of as com- 
ing before his eyes. In the Governor's pew, when 
it was as you have rearranged it to-day, before it 
had been put on a level with the other pews, that 
perfect gentleman William Sullivan, and his fam- 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 29 

il3^ used to sit; and, farther down, we heard the 
resonant voice of Colonel May responding to the 
minister, as though he were at once Aaron and 
Hur, ready to uphold his minister, though he did 
it alone. And there was William Minot, upright 
and honorable, son of one of Dr. Freeman's dearest 
friends, whose descendants are with us still; and 
there were the Curtises, upholders and strength- 
eners of the society, whose descendants also are 
with us to-day; and in the broad aisle the Olivers, 
the Storers, and Bulfinches, and Joseph Coolidge, 
the first of the line, in the red cloak which, as 
I remember, was common to gentlemen of that 
day. 

They are all with us here, and with us also those 
dear friends who have been spoken of with such 
loyal affection, — Greenwood, who when he came to 
this Chapel seemed to us who were younger like 
a very angel of God, charming in person, in voice, 
in delivery, in gesture, and whose writings also 
had a charm which will make them remembered as 
long as English literature remains ; and then the 
dear friend who has been spoken of just now, 
Ephraim Peabody. Not a word too much has been 
said of him. He was great in the greatest way; 
a man of deep but manly piety, without a shadow 
of pretence of any sort ; a man who was independ- 
ent in the highest degree, and of whose conversa- 
tion in private I think it may be said that he who 
heard him talk for half an hour wished to hear him 
talk on through all the day. 

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130 king's chapel, boston. 

So much must be permitted to one who remem- 
bers a great way back ; and now, though my friend 
Wendell Holmes is about to give us a poem, may I 
venture to read a few lines of verse which I will not 
call poetry, but which may be a kind of prelude to 
his opera : — 

As our New England elm, the queen of trees, 

Lifts its vast urn of foliage to the breeze, 

Stirred by each air that thrills its graceful form, 

Or tossing wildly in the driving storm. 

Yet by its mighty roots is anchored fast, — 

So all our life is rooted in the past: 

Through all our struggles, hopes, through good and ill, 

The memories of childhood hold us still. 

Church of my boyhood ! as we gather here, 
Shades of the past, long buried, reappear. 
I see beside you other forms and faces. 
Another congregation takes your places. 
This dear old church with living lustre burns 
When all the immemorial past returns. 

From that old-fashioned pulpit, in my youth. 
Came the calm voice of simple, earnest truth, — 
Words of an honest man, who left the broad 
Highway of custom for a lonely road, 
Firm to resist each rude, opposing shock, — 
Like Hindu temple, cut in solid rock. 

And not in vain ; for where he made a way 
We enter into Freedom's home to-day. 
He helped to build, with new and better rules. 
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Working with men of every name and creed, 

With Cheverus, though unsainted, saint indeed; 
With Mather Byles or Holley took his stand. 
Holding a heretic's or bishop's hand; 
To all good work his ready help would lend; 
Of young and old the counsellor and friend; 
And was, when round his form Time's mantle fell, 
That "Indian summer" he described so well. 

The past is gone ! but let the coming race 
Keep this old Chapel ever in its place. 
Long may it stand for truth, and every son 
Join in still better work as time rolls on ! 
And let its children, wheresoe'er they roam, 
Hold fast the lessons of their early home ; 
And 'mid temptation's wild and stormy blast 
May this old anchor ever hold them fast ! 

The Minister then said : " The Poet who for long years 
has found a home amid these associations, will now touch 
for us some of their chords." 



POEM. 

BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, M.D., L.L.D., D.C.L. 

Is it a weanling's weakness for the past 

That in the stormy, rebel-breeding town. 
Swept clean of relics by the levelling blast, 
Still keeps our gray old Chapel's name of "King's," 
Still to its outworn symbols fondly clino-s, 
Its unchurched mitres and its empty crown? 

Poor, harmless emblems ! All has shrunk away 
That made them Gorgons in the patriot's eyes ; 
The priestly plaything harms us not to-day; 



132 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

The gilded crown is but a pleasing show, 
An Old-World heirloom left from long ago, 
Wreck of the past that memory bids us prize. 

Lightly we glance the fresh-cut marbles o'er; 

Those two of earlier date our eyes enthrall : 
The proud old Briton's by the western door; 
And hers, the lady of colonial days. 
Whose virtues live in long-drawn classic phrase, — 

The fair Francisca of the southern wall. 

Ay ! those were goodly men that Reynolds drew, 
And stately dames our Copley's canvas holds ; 
To their old church, their royal master, true. 
Proud of the claim their valiant sires had earned, 
That " gentle blood," not lightly to be spurned, 
Save by the churl ungenerous Nature moulds. 

All vanished ! It were idle to complain 

That ere the fruits shall come the flowers must fall ; 

Yet somewhat we have lost amid our gain, 

Some rare ideals time may not restore, — 

The charm of courtly breeding, seen no more, 
And reverence, dearest ornament of all. 

Thus musing, to the western wall I came. 

Departing, — lo ! a tablet fresh and fair, 
Where glistened many a youth's remembered name 
In golden letters on the snow-white stone, — 
Young lives these aisles and arches once have known, 

Their country's bleeding altar might not spare. 

These died that we might claim a soil unstained 
Save by the blood of heroes ; their bequests, 

A realm unsevered and a race unchained. 

Has purer blood through Norman veins come down 

From the rough knights that clutched the Saxon's crown 
Than warmed the pulses in these faithful breasts? 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 33 

These, too, shall live in history's deathless page, 
High on the slow-wrought pedestals of fame, 

Ranged with the heroes of remoter age : 

They could not die who left their nation free, 

Firm as the rock, unfettered as the sea, 

Its heaven unshadowed by the cloud of shame. 

While on the storied past our memory dwells. 
Our grateful tribute shall not be denied, — 

The wreath, the cross of rustling immortelles; 

And willing hands shall clear each darkening bust, 

As year by year sifts down the clinging dust 
On Shirley's beauty and on Vassall's pride. 

But for our own, our loved and lost, we bring 

With throbbing hearts and tears that still must flow, 

In full-heaped hands, the opening flowers of spring, — 

Lilies half blown, and budding roses, red 

As their young cheeks before the blood was shed 
That lent their morning bloom its generous glow. 

Ah ! who shall count a rescued nation's debt. 
Or sum in words our martyrs* silent claims? 
Who shall our heroes' dread exchange forget, — 
All life, youth, hope, could promise to allure 
For all that soul could brave or flesh endure? 

They shaped our future : we but carve their names. 

The Minister then said: "The Plummer Professor 
Emeritus comes to us here as preacher, in a very true sense 
a pastor long familiar to this church, friend, and fellow- 
worshipper. No one knows better than he the quality 
of men who have made this congregation in the past, and 
the quality that must continue in order to make the Chris- 
tian church a vital force in the modern world. After him. 



134 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

in closing these services, another will speak to you, in whom 
many associations meet. A living church cannot live, and 
will not seek to live, upon its history alone. Together with 
the backward-looking reverence it will desire to have the 
forward and the upward look; and so in the name of our 
memories and our hopes we shall ask Professor Francis 
Greenwood Peabody to conclude this service." 

ADDRESS. 

BY REV. ANDREW PRESTON PEABODY, D.D., LL.D., 

Phimmer Professor Emeritus in Harvard University. 

" There shall be like people, like priest." So 
ran the words of the curse which Hosea pro- 
nounced on the house of Israel, — words which, 
uttered here a century ago, would have been a pro- 
phetic benediction, the fulfilment of which we cele- 
brate to-day with gratitude and gladness. But they 
are less a specific prediction than the statement of a 
special case under a general law. In all relations, 
— domestic, social, public, — the tendency to assim- 
ilation is inevitable, and in none more truly so than 
in a Christian congregation. The members of a 
church choose a minister after their own ideal, which 
though it can hardly be bad, may be coarse and low ; 
and if they are mistaken in the man, unless they 
speedily rid themselves of him, they rise or sink 
toward his level. Conversely, wherever there can 
be a choice of churches, the minister both attracts 
and shapes his like ; and if he has the best of pa- 
rishioners, he has borne no small part in making 
them so. To men and women of even the stronsfest 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 35 

minds and characters, it is of no little consequence 
what sort of worship they engage in and what sort 
of preaching they hear at church. Sunday is the 
day for receiving, to those who are imparting all 
the rest of the week. If there be a heart-altar, it 
depends in large part for fuel on the Sunday pile ; 
and it makes a great difference whether from that 
pile be fed a mere crackling of thorns, or a steady, 
generous flame. 

The ministers of whose eminent worth you have 
heard from my brethren could not but have had in 
their flock men and women of the noblest type, and 
could not but have made and left their own indelible 
impress on those to whom they ministered. 

My more intimate connection with this church 
commenced in the autumn of i860; and its pulpit 
continued under my charge for more than a year, 
till the settlement of my very dear friend and pastor, 
the present minister. During my period of service, 
the wardens were William Thomas and Gardner 
Brewer, to both of whom I was indebted for constant 
and manifold kindness, and whose assiduous care 
for their sacred charge I hold in reverent memory. 
It was my privilege to be often with Mr. Thomas 
during his weary months of decline and suffering, 
and to see that the principles which had sustained 
him in an upright and generous life sufficed for his 
support when all that remained for him was to await 
the long-lingering summons to go up higher. With 
him, what a goodly company have passed on to the 
temple above ! And their works have not followed 



136 king's chapel, boston. 

them, but remain for the firmer and higher upbuild- 
ing of truth and righteousness. To name only a 
few of those whom I have known personally, — I re- 
call James Jackson, whose benignant presence fully 
shared with his surpassing science and skill the con- 
quest of disease and suffering ; William Minot, than 
whom no man ever had more fully the confidence, 
respect, and reverence of the whole community, who 
told the secret, the open secret, of his life, when on 
the margin of the death-river he said, " I have no 
hope but in my Saviour, — through him alone I have 
a trembling, yet confident assurance of heavenly 
happiness ; " Charles Pelham Curtis, long a most 
efficient ofiicer and care-taker of this church, in 
which he was loved and honored, and but one of a 
family largely and still identified with the Christian 
worship, work, and cherished fellowship of King's 
Chapel ; Thomas Bulfinch, by both parents the rich 
inheritor of ancestral virtues, — an accomplished 
scholar, too, — whose modesty would have veiled 
the light of his pure and sweet life, had it not 
been kindled from that central sun whose rays a 
meek and lowly spirit cannot hide; John Amory 
Lowell, toward whom there seemed a perpetual 
gravitation of trusts of the highest moment, that 
would have weighed down almost any other man, 
but which only brought out into the clearer relief 
his wisdom, his fertility of resource, and his un- 
surpassed fidelity ; Samuel Atkins Eliot, walking 
in his uprightness in sunshine and in shadow, 
who could no more have swerved from the right 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 37 

than the stars from their courses ; Joseph Coolidge, 
than whom this church had no more loyal and no 
more worthy member, his heart-home always here 
in distant sojourns and in far-off lands ; George 
Barrell Emerson, the pioneer of reformed and truly 
Christian education, whose school was always a 
sanctuary, and its training, no less for heaven than 
for earth; Francis Cabot Lowell, who, in blended 
dignity and grace, in transparent purity of soul and 
of life, presented all the traits that go to make up 
that highest style of man, the Christian gentleman ; 
Edward Pickering, meet representative of a family 
illustrious equally for public service and for private 
worth ; my friend and classmate, Joshua Thomas 
Stevenson, who, in the stress of arduous official duty, 
found time and heart for hardly less arduous work in 
the Hospital, whose interests, in pure philanthropy, 
he made his special charge ; George Tyler Bigelow, 
so admirably fitted to preside in a court on whose 
integrity not a momentary cloud has ever rested. 
This list which, had I time, I should more than 
double, I must close with the last of those who have 
gone from us, — Charles Francis Adams, whose name 
will gain new lustre with the lapse of years, whom 
posterity will regard as having borne at least as im- 
portant a part in our country's second birth as his 
grandfather in the conflict through which it first 
struG:q;led into life. These with whom I have wor- 
shipped here, and many others of kindred spirit, 
with not a few saintly women, whom I need not 

name to recall them to your thought, come back to 

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138 king's chapel, boston. 

me from the years that have gone, in living, grateful, 
loving remembrance. 

Such a record craves and claims continuance. 
These sacred memories ought to be prophetic. My 
friends of this church, you truly honor its fathers 
only by being their worthy children. Let what you 
praise in them not be buried in their graves, but 
live anew, and ever on, in your loyal Christian life- 
work. Be it your care to transmit for the next 
centennial a roll of honor — of the honor that 
comes not from man, but from God — like that to- 
day, too full and long to be rehearsed within the 
memorial hour. 

ADDRESS. 

BY THE REV. FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY. 

Plumtner Professor in Harvard Uiiiversity. 

If I were to add anything more than a few 
brief sentences to what has been already said, I 
should not only be contributing what was super- 
fluous, but I should soon make some of you suspect 
that this solemn occasion was to be continued until 
the two hundredth and two hundred and fiftieth 
anniversaries were merged into one. Yet there is 
one note among this series of noble reminiscences 
which has not yet been struck, and on which one of 
the younger generation may, for a closing moment, 
not unfitly dwell. It is the note, not of memory, 
but of hope. It is the impression not of the back- 
ward, but of the forward look. I turn, as we con- 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 139 

elude this commemoration, from the past to the 
future; and I ask, What has this ancient church to 
say to the new life about it, and to the relio-ion 
whose forms and methods must change with the 
changing years ? What is the element which this 
long and honorable history is now ready to trans- 
mit as its peculiar contribution to the religion of 
the future, and which we can now sum up, not 
alone in terms of reverent reminiscence, but in 
terms of prophetic hope. I can answer this only as 
I recall, in perhaps too personal a way, the impres- 
sion which this church has made upon the one life 
I happen to know best. 

When I look back, as a child of this church, and 
try to reckon its influence, my first impression is 
mingled and confusing. Every early experience 
which I can confess of any sacredness or perma- 
nence or depth had its origin and its blessing here. 
I remember trivial incidents and serious ones, 
friendships and sermons, festivities and solemnities, 
the dreams and the prayers of youth ; and behind 
all, there remains the dim reminiscence of one per- 
sonality of whom I think when I read of the insio-ht 
given to the pure in heart, and of the life that was 
founded upon a Rock. Yet when I try to read 
what lies behind all these different influences, it 
seems to be plain enough. The fundamental im- 
pression made by this church on at least one young 
life remains entirely distinct. It was not made by 
its preaching, however eloquent, or by its architec- 
ture, however beautiful ; but by the subtile atmos- 



140 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

phere which has always prevailed here, of reverence, 
of piety, and of prayer. I thank God that I was 
born into a church which must be peculiarly de- 
scribed as worshipful. No other impression could 
be made by a place like this. Surrounded by these 
monuments of piety, encircled by these graves, set 
with its repose in the midst of these busy streets, 
such a place quiets and subdues at its very gateway 
even the most boisterous boy ; nor did I ever know 
a preacher who could find this pulpit adapted to 
anything but his most serious, devout, and lofty 
utterance. I thank God that my first recollections 
are of this sense of reverence, and that I never 
can outsfrow this view of the function of a church. 
We hear much about adapting our churches to the 
life of to-day, and making them social, homelike, 
and modern. I am thankful that my memories are 
not of church sociables and parish kitchens, but 
of a place filled with the sense of God, and in 
which human associations were subordinated and 
accessory. We hear much, also, about making the 
Sunday-school the children's church, and freeing the 
young from their fatiguing attendance on general 
worship. I am thankful tliat I was born before this 
new regime, which puts asunder on the Lord's day 
the families whom God hath joined together, and 
which makes the Sunday-school the rival, if not the 
enemy, of the Church. I owe many debts to faith- 
ful teachers here, but most of all am I indebted to 
them for never creating in my mind any doubt as 
to where the centre of Sunday lay. It lay for me 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. I41 

in the midst of my family in their common wor- 
ship. It lay for me where I for the most part lay 
throughout the sermon, — 

"At that best academe, a mother's knee." 

I owe more Christian conviction to these circum- 
stances of repose than to all my catechetical instruc- 
tion ; and if there is any blessing which I feel sure 
is to be permanent for my own children, and which 
is a blessing for their parents also, it is that they 
have never yet heard any discussion as to the rel- 
ative claims of Church and Sunday-school ; that 
church-going is one of their earliest ambitions, and 
that they are able to find repose in arms which make 
it a part of worship to welcome and hold them. 

I thank God, then, for the influence of a wor- 
shipful church ; and as I, with the younger genera- 
tion, look forward from this commemoration of the 
past to the problems of the future, this is the ele- 
ment of a permanent faith for which we look to 
a church like this. What the religion of our time 
has to fear is not that it shall be unscientific in its 
thought, or unpractical in its conduct. Never be- 
fore have the churches applied themselves as they 
are now doing to the worthy tasks of scientific 
theology and of practical usefulness. But what we 
have to fear is this : that in this great and wise 
transition into clearer thinking and better doing we 
may pass out of the atmosphere of devout feeling 
and prayerful meditation, the only atmosphere which 
is religion's native air. We should then be trying 



142 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

to gather the fruits of life without nourishing the 
roots of life. We should find small gain in the 
science of religion, if we lost the experience of 
religion. We should have no legitimate basis for a 
common life of work, if we had no common life of 
prayer. Such is the lesson which many a soul has 
learned, as it has turned alike from its thought and 
from its work to the influences of this holy place ; 
and such will still be the message of this church to 
a restless and fretful world. May it still stand 
among us for the foundations of religion, for rever- 
ence, for piety, for worship, so that the young of 
the new time shall bless it as the fathers of the old 
time have done ! Let the tides of the city ebb with 
the night about it into rest, and let the returning 
flood sweep about it with the roar of each new day. 
Still may it stand, as it so long has done, like a 
light-house set in the midst of a surging and danger- 
ous sea, with its light kept burning and its message 
of a quiet harbor for the soul. 

After the singing of an Anthem, the services closed 
with the Benediction by the Rev. JOHN CORDNER, LL.D. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



correspondence; 



/rom ©facial anb otijer Innitcl) (gtiostjs. 

Mr. Oliver Ames accepts with pleasure the invitation of King's 
Chapel to attend the commemorative services on the 15th inst. 
Boston, Dec. 6, 18S6. 

— ■♦ — 

Mayor's Office, City Hall, 
EosTON, Dec. 8, 1886. 
Dear Sir, — His Honor Mayor O'Brien accepts your kind invi- 
tation to attend the services at King's Chapel December 15, and 
thanks the Committee for the same. 

Yours respectfully, 

N. H. Taylor, 

Mayor's Secretary. 

War Department, Office of the Secretary, 
Washington, Dec. 10, 1886. 

Gentlemen, — I beg to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of 
the cordial invitation of King's Chapel, Boston, to attend the ser- 
vices which are to be held on the 15 th instant, in commemoration 
of its completion of two hundred years. 

I regret very much that it will not be in my power to be in Bos- 
ton on that date, and I must therefore forego the pleasure of being 
present on so interesting an occasion. 

I am very truly yours, 

William C. Endicott. 

' Many letters were received from gentlemen invited to attend the cele- 
bration, and a few of them are here given. 



146 king's chapel, boston. 

Senate Chamber, Washington, Dec. 8, 1886. 
Dear Sir, — I am very sorry that I cannot attend the services 
on December 15. The occasion will be one of very great interest 
to all persons who are proud of the history of Massachusetts ; but 
my duty requires me to be elsewhere on that day. 
I am yours very truly, 

George F. Hoar. 



90 Marlborough Street, Boston, Dec. 8, 1886. 

My dear Mr. Foote, — I thank you sincerely for your most 
kind invitation of the 3d instant. It would afford me real pleasure 
to accept it, and to say a few words at the commemoration of the 
two hundredth anniversary of the foundation of King's Chapel. 
But the state of my health at this moment compels me to deny 
myself to all public occasions. 

Though none of the Winthrops of the olden time were con- 
nected with your venerable church, I may claim two direct ances- 
tors among those who have a distinguished place in its annals, — 
Governor Joseph Dudley, and the famous John Nelson. You have 
mentioned them both in your admirable first volume. 

But my own personal associations with your church are far 
more precious to me. I cannot forget that during not a few of 
my earher years I was in the habit of attending afternoon service 
at King's Chapel, and I can honestly say that I recall the sermons 
of Dr. Greenwood and Dr. Ephraim Peabody as among the most 
impressive and inspiring to which I have ever listened. Two more 
saint-like men I have never known, and their friendship was among 
the privileges of my life. 

I never pass the corner of School Street without rejoicing that 
King's Chapel has survived the ravages of time and chance, and 
that it promises to remain as a monument of Old Boston, keeping 
watch over the graves of the Founders. Esto perpetua ! 

Believe me, dear Mr. Foote, with renewed thanks and warm 

regard, 

Yours very truly, 

RobT C. Winthrop. 
Rev. H. W. Foote, Rector of King's Chapel. 




THOMAS POWNALL. 

(Governor 1757-1760.) 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 147 

Dorchester, Dec. 16, 1886. 

My dear Sir, — I am grateful for your very kind remembrance 
of me and the card which came so timely as an " open sesame " to 
the opening services of the third century of King's Chapel, and the 
closing chapters of the first two. It was not unfitting that old 
Swansea should have a representation at the gathering, for Samuel 
Myles, the rector of thirty-nine years from 1689 to 1728, was the 
son of our John Myles, of Swansea history. Reference is made to 
Samuel Myles on page 80 of my "Historical Sketches of Bar- 
rington." While in the old Chapel I thought also of the grave of 
an ancestor in the old churchyard, Mary Chilton, of Plymouth 
Rock tradition. 

May I bespeak your kind offices for a copy of the Proceedings 
of yesterday, when printed ? 

Most truly, 

Thomas W. Bicknell. 



Dorchester, Dec. 12, 1886. 
Gentlemen, — I am very grateful for the invitation you have 
extended to me to be present on the celebration of the two hun- 
dredth anniversary of King's Chapel. I should enjoy the honor 
and privilege exceedingly, as I have in my own veins some of the 
blood which your Rev. Pastor and myself have inherited from the 
Wilders ; but above all to participate with you and the host that 
will be present on the occasion, in the renown, prosperity, and in- 
fluence of the institution for the good of our city, and the welfare 
of mankind. So may it go on prospering and to prosper until we 
shall have done worshipping in chapels on earth, and finally be 
assembled in the King's Chapel above. 
As ever yours, 

Marshall P. Wilder.^ 
(179S-1SS6.) 

1 The death of the venerable President of the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society took place on the day following our services, — Decem- 
ber 1 6, 1886. 



148 king's chapel, boston. 

/rom foxmtx l^ax\&\)iomx& anb posccnbaittg of i\)t (Eljitrd). 

130 Pacific Street, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 11, 1SS6. 

My dear Brother, — It is really very sad for me to be com- 
pelled to forego the high satisfaction and pleasure of uniting with 
you and your people in celebrating the two hundredth anniversary 
of my ever dear and venerable birthright church. Especially do 
I value the kind words in which you express the wishes of yourself 
and of the Committee of Arrangements, that I should be present 
and offer the Prayer on this most interesting occasion. The latter 
ofifice thus kindly proffered I deem a marked compliment. Be 
assured that that prayer is already as fervent at heart as it could 
be if breathed out in that beloved sanctuary on Wednesday. The 
condition of my family and a sense of proper regard, at my age 
and under medical advice, to the risks of the season control me ; 
and thanking you and your Committee most heartily, I yield with 
as good grace as I can. 

But memory will go back to the past, and I must jot down a few 
of its ramblings. My earliest recollections of the church cluster 
about the pastor of my childhood and youth, — the venerable, 
beloved, and saintly Freeman ; him who made King's Chapel the 
pioneer church of our precious and liberal faith in the Republic. 
That sweet and gentle spirit shone in his every tone and manner, 
made him delightful in his intercourse with the young of his flock, 
and his presence in our homes was always an occasion hailed and 
remembered with pleasure. For his sympathies were the quickest 
and warmest ; he truly rejoiced with them that rejoiced, and 
wept with them that wept. Never can I forget, when on a Sunday 
morning my beloved mother — whose image is as fresh as of yester- 
day in my memory — was lying in the last stage of lingering con- 
sumption, and I was about going to church, my father told me to 
ask Dr. Freeman after service to come home with me. The good 
man did. My mother was too feeble to speak, but perfectly con- 
scious. Dr. Freeman bent over her to say a few parting words, 
and then knelt at her bedside in prayer. Her hand lay in his, 
and the change in his utterance as he prayed, first told us that 
her angel spirit had fled. 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 49 

My remembrance of the Doctor's preaching is very distinct from 
my youth up. His manner was quiet, but earnest and honest, 
reverent and dignified in its impressiveness. You felt that he 
meant every word. Yet though prevailingly calm, — far, certainly, 
from being emotional in public discourse, — so strong and tender 
were his affections and so keen his sensibilities, that I have seen 
him in the pulpit so swayed and overpowered by emotion as to be 
brought to a full stop, unable to utter a word. Notably on one 
occasion, in preaching a funeral sermon on a dear and distin- 
guished friend, and his audience in full sympathy with him, he 
was compelled to give way to his tears and sit down. 

His style was in general didactic, and his themes largely ethical 
and practical, addressed to the clear reason and thought of his 
hearers. But as proof that he could rivet the attention of even the 
young, I gained when a mere boy my first intelligent impressions 
of the significance of the early portions of Genesis, and of the 
Bible itself, from a series of discourses in which he unfolded and 
justified an allegorical interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve, 
the Temptation and the Fall. During a college vacation, my atten- 
tion was so held by two sermons on " The Honest Man," that I 
begged permission to read and make an abstract of them, — which 
he at once granted. 

As my ordination at Providence, R. I., in 1828 approached, I 
specially desired that Dr. Freeman should give me the charge. 
About a year before, on account of bodily infirmities, he had 
retired from professional duty to his farm at Newton, and I there- 
fore consulted his colleague and successor Dr. Greenwood, who, 
though feeling confident that he would from necessity decline, 
thought he would be gratified at being thus remembered, and pro- 
posed to go at once with me to Newton. The Doctor received us 
with his wonted cordiality, and on understanding my errand thanked 
me ; then, in substance, and in the kindest manner he said : "I wish 
I could, but it is impossible. I cannot go to Providence. I will 
charge you, however, here and now." Accordingly, in the most 
thoughtful and affectionate way, he talked to me on the nature, 
duties, and responsibilities of the office I was about to undertake. • 
Then, with a spice of humor in his look and manner, — gently 
whipping my companion over my back, — he charged me to finish 
my sermons before entering the pulpit, and not (glancing mean- 



150 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

ingly at his colleague), like some of the brethren, finish them there. 
He ended by telling us that during the forty-seven years of his 
pastorate he never worked on his sermons on a Saturday, but 
kept that day for recreation, visiting, and receiving visits ; and on 
Sunday went fresh to his public duty. 

Dr. Freeman's first colleague, as you well know, was the Rev, 
Samuel Gary. Soon after my mother's death in November, 18 13, 
my father prepared to abandon housekeeping, and Mr. Gary at 
once proposed that I should live with him till entering Harvard at 
the next Gommencement. This, as it proved, pleasant arrange- 
ment took immediate effect. Mr. Gary had no children, and his 
family consisted of his wife, her unmarried sister, and himself. 
Excellent and exemplary in all his relations, and thoroughly de- 
voted to his ministry, he proved to me a most kind, scholarly, and 
Christian friend, helper, and counsellor in my preparation for the 
University and for maturer Hfe. Happy, most happy was he in 
his marriage to Miss Atkinson, of Middletown, Gonn., a lovely and 
accomplished woman, in all respects his true help-meet. Together, 
though childless, their home was all that hearty mutual affection 
and fidelity, pure and high principle, sincere and unostentatious 
piety could make it. I have never doubted that its influence, in 
the ten months during which I shared it, largely determined the 
early choice and final adoption of my present and long-time 
profession. 

But see still how my fortunes have been associated in some 
sense all along with King's Ghapel, and what reason I have to be 
thankful for it. After debating the question of a profession some 
six months after graduation, I at last, to gratify a parent's wish, 
entered the law-office of one of the noblest members of the Bar 
and of your parish, the late William Sullivan, — always to the hour of 
his death a most faithful and endeared friend. No man within 
my memory has done more honor to the Ghapel through his 
devotedness to its interests, and the purity and elevation of his 
personal character as a Christian gentleman, than he. 

After a long interval I preached two Sundays in March, 1867, 
in the Ghapel ; and some half hour before service, on the first 
Sunday, seated myself in our old family pew (No. 76, broad aisle) 
to meditate. I was interrupted by the sexton, who saluted me 
in the easy way of an old acquaintance, and said he had often 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 151 

handed me the wonted foot-stove in my early days. He gave me 
as his the rare name of Smith, — son and assistant of the sexton of 
the same name in my boyhood ; his successor, and with a son to 
assist himself. Verily another characteristic illustration of that per- 
manence of things with you to which I am about to allude ! I 
questioned him about the occupants of pews here and there within 
sight, and to my surprise found them of the same name and lineage 
with those whose names were familiar in days long gone by. After 
service I was followed to the vestry room by several gentlemen, 
and telling the incident, asked your senior warden of that day — the 
late esteemed William Thomas — how he accounted for this remark- 
able element of permanence in the Society. He at once repUed, 
" By the use of our Prayer Book ; " and the others assented. I 
was instantly reminded that on my return voyage from Europe, 
in 1 85 2, I met on the Cunarder the family of a late prominent 
member of your Society, who I knew had left the New South 
Church for King's Chapel at the time his friend and pastor at 
the former — Dr. Greenwood — became minister of the latter. 
Walking the deck one day with him, I asked if he was recon- 
ciled to the use of the Liturgy. He replied : " Entirely. The 
best proof I can give you is, that preparing for a long absence 
abroad I put among my luggage copies for each of my family, 
with three or four extra for friends we might meet ; and we 
very rarely failed, all the time of our absence, to have a Sunday 
morning service." 

It has seemed to me a great privilege, my dear brother, which 
you are enjoying, and on which I congratulate you, to be the 
pastor and historian of a church so hallowed by antiquity and 
sacred by precious memories and an honorable record, — and long 
may it be your lot ! What a cloud of witnesses to its fair fame 
rise up from the past, as I recall those who filled its pews in 
my early life ! Dalton and Gore and Sullivan and Curtis, — the 
mural tablets on its walls attesting in stone the worth of the last 
two, — the Coolidges, May, Bulfinch, Boott, Pratt, Modey, and 
a crowd of others. Within my knowledge and in my own circle 
of friendship and fraternity, the Chapel has been too the nursery 
or primary school of several of our liberal clergy, — Greenwood 
and Sullivan, and May and Bulfinch, all departed and all hon- 
ored ; and one more who survives, — primus ifiter pares, — 



152 king's chapel, boston. 

James Freeman Clarke. And " long may he survive " is, I know, 
your prayer and mine ! 

Affectionately yours, 

Frederick A. Farley. 



Florence, Italy, Jan. 8, 1887. 
Mr. Francis C. Lowell, 50 State Street, Boston : 

Dear Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt (yes- 
terday) of the card of invitation from King's Chapel. Please con- 
vey to the gentlemen of the Committee my sincere thanks for the 
most pleasant greeting of the new year, — a token that, after so 
many years and at such a distance away, I am still remembered in 
the old stone Chapel. Say to them that I shall never cease to 
remember the many happy hours during the sixteen years that my 
voice was lifted in the service of the dear old Church, and that if 
anything could have drawn me four thousand miles, it would have 
been once more to join in the harmony on the occasion of her 
two hundredth anniversary. 

Very truly yours, 

Thomas Ball. 



Mr. Francis Brinley regrets his almost total blindness deprives 
him of the pleasure to accept the invitation of King's Chapel, to 
attend the services commemorative of the completion of two hun- 
dred years of its existence, especially as two of his ancestors were 
simultaneously Church Wardens, and that the family tomb is in 
the cemetery adjacent to the Chapel. 

Newport, R. I., December 8. 



Worcester, Mass., Dec. 4, 1886. 
My dear Sir, — Thank you for the kind invitation to attend the 
services commemorative of the two hundredth anniversary of the 
foundation of King's Chapel. I accept it with pleasure. Perhaps 
my college classmate. Rev. Mr. Foote, suggested that an invitation 
be sent to me because he remembered that my mother was bap- 
tized in King's Chapel in 1807. Her father, Samuel Swett, a ship- 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 53 

owner, attended church there, living on Winter Street at the time. 
During my mother's childhood, however, he moved to Dedham ; 
but she often attended services at the Chapel subsequently with her 
old neighbors on Winter Street and intimate friends, the family of 
General Dennison, and with her aunt, who had the charge of her 
after her mother's death, Mrs. Eustis, the wife of General Abram 
Eustis, whose family while he was in command at Fort Indepen- 
dence attended church at King's Chapel. 

Although my mother has just passed her seventy-ninth birth- 
day she feels young, and is still vigorous ; and I know that it 
would gratify her very much to renew the recollections of her 
childhood and attend the anniversary services to be held on the 
15 th instant 

Very truly yours, 

Samuel S. Green. 



Newport, Dec. 8, 1886. 

Dear Sir, — I thank you most heartily for the invitation to the 
"commemoration," but I am very sorry that ill health will prevent 
my accepting it. 

Let me not fail, however, to express my interest in King's 
Chapel. To me it has the most beautiful interior of any church 
in America. I love to think of it, and " our pew " is distinct far 
back in childhood. I remember dear old Dr. Freeman. He 
baptized me seventy-five years ago — almost. Sometimes I have 
such vivid impression of the baptism — doubtless often told me 
— that it seems as if I recalled the scene. At any rate I do 
remember being with other children at the altar, and the cate- 
chism and its first question, "Who made you, child?" Pardon 
this, and with renewed thanks for your attention accept my ear- 
nest desires for a happy commemoration, and God's blessing on 
King's Chapel. 

Very truly, 

Thatcher Thayer. 



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154 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 



ftom (JTlcrggmen, 

Clinton, Dec. 6, i8S6. 
Reverend and de.ar Sir, — Your courteous note has reached 
me here, inviting me to take part in the very interesting commemo- 
ration at King's Chapel on Wednesday next. 

Allow me to thank you for the invitation extended to me by the 
Committee; but official duties in another part of the State will 
make it impracticable for me to be present. 
I am, sir, with much respect, 

Yours sincerely, 

Benjamin H. Paddock. 



Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. lo, iSS6. 
My dear Sir, — Permit me to acknowledge gratefully the cour- 
tesy of an invitation to the approaching historical observance at 
King's Chapel. I wish my duties here allowed me to be present. 
My recollections of the months when, a student at Cambridge, I 
read the service for Dr. Greenwood, are very delightful. 
With high esteem, sincerely yours, 

F. D. HuNTiNcroN. 



Meadville, Penn., Dec. lo, 1886. 
Mr. Francis C. Lowell : 

My dear Sir, — I am heartily grateful to your Committee for 
the invitation to attend the services commemorating the two hun- 
dredth anniversary of King's Chapel, — a place endeared to me by 
many years' association with its worship and friendsliip with its 
minister. Let me wish for the church long endurance, with all 
its venerable belongings and associations, on the familiar spot ; and 
an even more distinguished service in the future than in the past, 
for the broad free churchmanship in which it believes, and for 
which it stands among the churches of our body. 
Sincerely and heartily yours, 

Henry H. B.\rber. 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 55 

Boston, Dec. 4, 1886. 

Dear Mr. Lowell, — God willing, I shall be glad to be at the 
King's Chapel commemoration. 

Cordially yours, 

C. A. Bartol. 



626 Carlton Avenue, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1886. 

My dear Sir, — My thanks are due to your Committee for 
their kind invitation to the services commemorative of King's 
Chapel's completion of two hundred years. It will not be possible 
for me to come, but I congratulate your people heartily upon the 
long and honorable history of their church ; also that this has been 
so admirably written, and that for a quarter of a century they have 
had the continuous service of their present minister, and have been 
glad in him as he has been in them. 

Hoping that the anniversary services will be a happy incident 
of your long career, I am, my dear Sir, and people of King's 
Chapel, 

Very truly yours, 

John W. Chadwick. 



New York, Dec. 14, 1886. 

Gentlemen, — I should gladly have taken the journey to Boston 
this evening to attend King's Chapel to-morrow, had I not returned 
from there last Thursday, and in that visit used up all my time. 
King's Chapel is venerable to us all for other and better reasons 
than its fine old age, though that also is a very noble distinction. 
In my great County of York, in England, there is a grand old 
monastic ruin, near which some great yew-trees stand, sound and 
strong, under which men say the masons worked who laid the 
foundations of the church and home of the brethren. 

And the secret of the abiding strength of the great trees, they 
say, is this, that they cast off what is dead and worthless from the 
surface, and renew their youth forever at the heart. That is what 
King's Chapel has done in these centuries, and what its lovers and 



156 king's chapel, boston. 

friends are glad for. If we could all be there, whose hearts beat 
warm for the shrine which has grown so sacred, the place would 
not hold us. It will hold our good-will and good wishes and 
warmest greetings ; and these I send with all my heart. 
Indeed yours, 

Robert Collyer, 
Minister of the Church of the Messiah, 



Shelbyville, III., Dec. 11, 1886. 

Dear Sir, — I am sincerely thankful for the invitation to be 
present at the commemoration of the two hundredth anniversary 
of King's Chapel. I assure you that but for the long journey re- 
quired, and pressing engagements at home, I should try to accept 
the invitation. 

I have never been to but one other spot on earth that seemed 
more hallowed with memories of the past ; and that was Plymouth 
Rock and the Burial Hill of the Pilgrims. 

Those early morning prayer-meetings at the Anniversaries of 
the American Unitarian Association last summer, and the im- 
pressive communion service in King's Chapel, seemed to me 
like a real communion of saints on earth joined with those in 
heaven. It was a memorable experience to me ; and no less 
was the Sunday following, when I was called to serve in that 
pulpit. It was a rare experience filled with a strangely sacred 
awe. How could it be otherwise to one who was born and 
brought up in southern Illinois, whose mother was born in a 
fort in this (then) territory over seventy years ago, when the 
wild Indians were thick, — one whose ancestors came from the 
CaroHnas and Tennessee, and one who, for good reasons, had 
come to revere the Tri-Mountain city as a sort of Mecca and 
shrine of sacred memories ! Worshipping in that house, I thought 
of the venerated dust near by, and of the long line of devoted men 
and women who had spoken and prayed in that house, and whose 
bodies at last had been tenderly carried from thence to their last 
resting place. 

When I was a lad, about the only book I ever read besides the 
Book was the " Life of Dr. Franklin " written by himself, and I 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 57 

naturally came to regard him then as the greatest man on earth ; 
and to this day a feeling of reverence comes over me when I go 
near the early haunts of that very wise man, and pass beside the 
graves of his parents, near King's Chapel. In still later years of 
my life, the words spoken in the United States Congress that first 
thrilled me were the words of Charles Sumner; and though I 
never heard nor saw him in the flesh, I was among those, far away, 
who wept in sympathy as they read of his funeral service at King's 
Chapel. 

You can see then, how, standing in that dear old Chapel filled 
with the memories of two hundred years, I was almost over- 
whelmed with a sense of the presence of those not seen. It was 
to me a fuller audience room than any in which I had ever spoken. 
There were no empty seats and no empty space ; even the darkest 
recesses were crowded. It was as if one were walking in a beauti- 
ful garden just before the dawn, hearing seraphic music from " the 
choir invisible," and scenting the fragrance of rare flowers that 
could not be seen. 

Blessings upon the heads of those, — the children of the genera- 
tions past, — who gather within those walls next Wednesday ! 

Again thanking you for the kind invitation, and with regret that 
I cannot be present, believe me, in Christian fellowship, 

Yours truly, 

J. L, DOUTHIT. 



1426 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Dec. 13, 18S6. 
My dear Sir, — It is with great regret that I have to deny my- 
self the pleasure of being with you on the 15th inst. My eighty- 
four years are the obstacles. Old age may be hale, as mine is, but 
it is very brittle. 

It is very pleasant, in this changed world, to see in the list of 
your Wardens and Committee such names as I looked up to with 
reverence in my youth. 

With all good wishes, respectfully, 

W. H. FURNESS. 



158 king's chapel, boston. 

Dover, Mass., Dec. 6, 1886. 

Dear Sir, — I thank the Committee for their invitation to the 
commemoration services of King's Chapel, but shall probably 
not be in the city on that Wednesday. As one of the many not 
there who owe something to the brave deed of the Chapel folk 
one century ago, let me send thanks and congratulations to their 
children. 

Yours truly, 

W. C. Ganneti'. 



The Second Church in Boston, founded in 1649, 
Pastor's Study, Dec. 6, 18S6. 

My dear Sir, — With much pleasure I accept the invitation 
from the Committee to the commemorative exercises of King's 
Chapel, December 15. 

Allow me to take this opportunity to express my cordial fellow- 
ship, and that of my church, to the King's Chapel Society and its 
pastor. The Second Church rejoices in the noble history of its 
sister church, and congratulates pastor and people on the present 
vigor and prosperity now existing in it Both churches have 
travelled a long way. Our wish for you is the same we express for 
ourselves, — the age of experience and priceless associations, with 
renewal of youth and progress. 

I am sincerely yours, 

Edward A. Horton. 



176 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Dec. 6, 1S86. 

My dear Sir, — I write to thank you for the invitation to be 
present at the King's Chapel commemoration on the 15th inst, 
and to say that I am really sorry to be prevented by the distance 
in space between Boston and Cleveland from accepting the same. 
King's Chapel has borne a very memorable and interesting part 
in the story of the Unitarian movement in this country, and I 
would like much to be of the company that will gather to com- 
memorate its service and its long history. Allow me to send 




THOMAS HUTCHINSON. 
(Governor 1771-1774.) 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 59 

the sincere congratulations which I may not bring, and to wish 
for all who may be present a meeting in all ways worthy the 
signal occasion. 

Sincerely yours, 

F. L. HOSMER. 



25 Berwick Park, Boston, Dec. 8, 1886. 
Dear Sir, — In reply to your kind invitation, permit me to state 
that it will afford me much pleasure to receive a ticket permitting 
me to witness the services to be held in commemoration of the 
completion of the two hundred years of King's Chapel. 
Yours very truly, 

Raphael Lasker. 



Meadville, Pa., Dec. 11, 1886. 

Dear Sir, — The polite card received from the Committee of 
Invitations is most welcome. It reminds me of many things which 
it is good to remember, both public and private. It tells of the 
glorious record of your church for two centuries. It has justified 
its royal name by royal services to Christ and humanity. Liberal 
and reasonable, it has stood as a bulwark against the fanaticism 
of free-thinking unbehef. It has demonstrated the value of the 
Book of Prayer, not only as cultivating the devotional spirit, but 
as chastening the spirit of individualism and religious freedom, 
Long may it hold to its sure anchorage in the faith of Christ ! 

I am reminded too of that dear kinsman of mine. Dr. Ephraim 
Peabody, whose sweet and hallowed memory is fresh and fragrant 
as ever, and knows no sere and yellow leaf either in your church 
or the Unitarian church general. 

It would give me the greatest pleasure to be present in body, as 
I shall be in spirit, with my friend your beloved pastor and the 
company of the elect on the great day of the two hundredth anni- 
versary of your church ; but my duties here will not allow of my 
absence. 

Gratefully and respectfully yours, 

A. A. Livermore. 



l6o KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

913 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Dec. 7, 1886. 

Dear Sir, — I have to acknowledge with great pleasure the re- 
ceipt of an invitation to attend the two hundredth anniversary of the 
founding of King's Chapel. I have much doubt whether I can en- 
joy the peculiar pleasure it would be to me to attend. I most cer- 
tainly shall come on if next week it should appear possible. I 
should hardly feel at liberty, there being thus some doubt, to ac- 
cept a ticket, as they will be in great demand. Yet should I tres- 
pass too far if I should say that in case of my not coming it would 
give me great satisfaction to transfer the ticket to a member of my 
family (my son) who is in Boston? With your consent I would 
very gladly avail myself of this alternative privilege. 

The Chapel is my ancestral church, as my name will suggest 
to you ; my mother's as well as my father's family having been 
brought up there, and my parents having been married there. I 
feel a great desire, if I should not finally be able to come on 
(which I fear), that our family should not be unrepresented. Please 
excuse this long note, and beheve me 

Very truly yours, 

Joseph May. 



219 West 130TH Street, New York, Dec. 12, 1886. 

My dear Mr. Foote, — I want to thank you for the courtesy of 
your remembrance upon the occasion of the interesting commemo- 
ration services at King's Chapel. At least I presume it is through 
your kindness the invitation has come to me, for I know no other 
who would remember me in this connection. I sincerely trust that 
Wednesday may prove to be all you could wish, and that the 
patriotic and religious sentiments stirred by the thoughts of days 
" lang syne " may be a new inspiration to duty to both State and 
religion. 

It is pleasant to remember that I was represented — in my reli- 
gious ancestry — in the early history of the Chapel, for did not 
Charles Wesley preach there during his visit to America? 

Yours ever, 

F. Mason North. 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. l6l 

loo Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Dec. ii, 1886. 
My dear Mr. Lowell, — I am sorry that a service appointed 
at my church for Wednesday afternoon will prevent my acceptance 
of the kind invitation of King's Chapel to be present at the service 
in commemoration on that day. 

Allow me to present my congratulations on the two hundredth 
birthday, and express a wish that the future may become more 
full than the past of the fruits of the good work for which King's 
Chapel has been distinguished, 

I am yours faithfully, 

Leighton Parks. 



12 LouiSBURG Square, Boston, Dec. 15, 1SS6. 

My dear Mr. Foote, — In connection with the delightful ser- 
vices at King's Chapel which I have attended this afternoon, I am 
moved to write you of a little circumstance which brings your 
church into a brief but pleasant relationship with mine, and which 
may be new to you. It is that at the formation of our society in 
18 18, the plate used in the Communion service was obtained from 
King's Chapel. I quote from an article in Vol. XXXI. of the 
" New Jerusalem Magazine," written by Henry G. Foster : — 

"The Communion was administered at the close of the service, in 
which, it was said, one or two of the congregation participated who 
were unknown to us. The plate for the Communion was obtained 
from King's Chapel by the kindness of the late Col. Joseph May, long 
a distinguished member of that society." 

It is pleasant to me to be able to mention this friendly act, 
which forms a link, even though it be a slight one, between our 
two churches. 

Fraternally yours, 

James Reed. 



Burlington, Vt., Dec. 6, 1886. 

My dear Mr, Foote, — I am much gratified with the invitation 
to King's Chapel Commemoration, but am obliged, just now, to 
send to your Committee my thanks, and regrets that I cannot 



1 62 . king's chapel, boston. 

leave home for even that great pleasure and good. You know 
how glad it would make me to partake your joy. But this must 
fall under Goethe's and a diviner rule, — "Thou must renounce." 

But count me among the reverencers of the Chapel and its 
honorable years, — among your friends too ; also will rejoice with 
it and you in this happy Festival. May all go well ! But it is 
superfluous to say so. The time itself and the occasion will com- 
mand their own right success. 

Heartily I wish I might be with you, in person as in spirit. 

Faithfully, 

L. G. Ware. 



Cincinnati, Dec. 9, 1886. 
My dear Sir, — I am sorry that distance will keep me from 
joining in your commemoration of King's Chapel's two hundredth 
birthday, but I can heartily join in the spirit with the goodly 
number of people who, whether assembled with you or absent, 
will rejoice in the noble history of the Church, and in the promise 
of its long continued usefulness as a centre of religious life and 
theological progress. 

Thanking you for the card of invitation, I am 
Very truly yours, 

George A. Thayer. 



71 Chester Square, Boston, Dec. 6, 1886. 
Francis C. Lowell, Esq. : 

Dear Sir, — Accept my grateful acknowledgments for the card 
of invitation to be present at the commemorative services at the 
King's Chapel on the completion of two hundred years. 

Nothing but necessity will keep me away, and I trust and be- 
lieve that it may be my good fortune to be with you on that most 
interesting and memorable occasion. 

Dr. Greenwood and Dr. Peabody I knew well, and honored and 
loved, — gifted and saintly men. George B. Emerson, John A. 
Lowell, and how many, many more who loved that ancient and 
hallowed sanctuary — now gone — I was privileged to number as 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 63 

my best and dearest personal friends. Thus that place must ever 
be to me as the " Gate of Heaven." Long may God's divinest 
blessing be with you all ! 
With highest respect, 

Most truly yours, 

R. C. Waterston. 



243 East Eighteenth Street, New York, Dec. 12, 1S86. 
My dear Mr. Lowell, — The invitation to King's Chapel was 
delayed at my former address, to which it was directed ; so please 
excuse this tardy reply. I am very sorry I cannot be present at 
the commemoration. It will certainly be a service of unusual 
interest. I hope some one will explain why the loyal chwch- 
men who founded the chapel should have called it that. Why 
did they not call it a church, — St. Charles's or St. Botolph's, 
for example? Was it that the foundation was rather political 
than ecclesiastical? Some of those good founders seem not to 
have been noted for saintliness. No doubt they were all fine 
gentlemen, and wore long hair and lace ruffles. But I don't 
believe the Chapel was ever so Christian an institution as it has 
been for the last hundred years, and is now. They builded better 
than they knew. 

Yours sincerely, 

T. C. Williams. 



Boston, Dec. 7, 1886. 
Dear Sir, — It will give me pleasure to attend the services in 
commemoration of the two hundred years during which King's 
Chapel has shed light upon men. 

With cordial thanks for the invitation, 

I am, respectfully, 

Wm. Burnet Wright. 



Concord, Mass., Dec. 16, 1886. 
My dear Mr. Foote, — I want to congratulate you and your 
beloved church on the great success of your two hundredth anni- 
versary celebration yesterday. It was, indeed, a memorable occa- 



164 king's chapel, boston. 

sion, and one that must have made you and your good people feel 
that you were richly repaid for all the labor and care which it cost 
you. The services at the very outset were pitched to a high key, 
nor lost for a single moment on to the end their wonderful inter- 
est, earnestness, dignity, and Christian spirit and power. What 
other American church could gather about itself such a wealth of 
historic associations, or bear a better or more beautiful testimony 
to a continued fidelity to the truth that is in Jesus and the faith 
that is unto salvation ? The Unitarianism for whicli King's Chapel 
has so long and so consistently stood, which found such noble and 
eloquent expression in the many varied yet accordant voices of 
yesterday, and what called forth the well-merited and magnificent 
tribute that was paid by the famous and honored rector of Trinity, 
— is there any form of religion which is at once more reasonable, 
Scriptural, comforting, and inspiring than that? Thank God for 
it, and for the church that with its successive ministers has been 
so loyal to it, and has so signally and finely exemplified and illus- 
trated its grace and truth ! 

What has thus recently been said and done, in connection with 
your bi-centennial commemoration, will have a powerful effect to 
make many souls more beUeving and devout, and to confirm them 
in their allegiance and love to the common Master. 

And so, dear brother, I give you joy, and am most glad that 
your lot is cast in such pleasant places, and that you are so worthily 
perpetuating the sacred tradition and Christian usefulness of the 
church of your affections ; and with warmest regards and all best 
wishes for you and yours, I am, as you know, 

Ever fraternally and faithfully yours, 

A. P. Putnam. 



CLOSING SERMON 



BY 



Rev. henry WILDER FOQTE, 



PREACHED IN 



feiuB's Cljapcl, a^oston, 

Dec. 19, 1886. 



SERMON. 



Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers 

PRAISED THEE. — Fsalms LXIV. II. 

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not 

HAVING spot or WRINKLE, OR ANY SUCH THING ; BUT THAT IT 
SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH. — EphesiatlS V. 27. 

'T~^HE pictures of the outer and of the inner Tem- 
■^ pie are here set before us, — that of a sanctuary 
venerable, beloved, and sacred by long association 
and holy use ; and that of the spiritual building for 
the sake of which all this exists, — to build up a 
community of souls, each in itself and all together 
in holiness and righteousness. 

These are the blended thoughts which seem to 
belong here to-day, when we stand freshly among 
the memories which have been so revived for us, 
and ask ourselves what is the great impulse which 
we should take forward into this new century of 
our parish life for our inspiration. For there are 
certain things very definite, very positive, and very 
helpful, which come to us to make us feel that we 
stand not so much at the end of a great history, but 
at the beginning of a work which we can do in 



1 68 king's chapel, boston. 

worthy continuation and even larger increase of 
that which has been so rich and full and fruitful 
in the long past. 

We must feel indeed to-day, as never before we 
have felt it as a church, how living the past is, how 
wealthy in teaching and in inspiration. 

It is largely due to the forward-reaching and eager 
temper of our time that an influential school of 
modern thinkers has been led to adopt, as one of the 
cardinal principles of their philosophy, the axiom 
that it is of little value to study the records of the 
past at all. The world starts fresh with each new 
generation, it is said. What would be the advan- 
tage in a man's going back to his own cradle in 
order to learn how to take care of himself, or return- 
ing to his first school in order to learn how to man- 
age his business ? The history of the past is the 
record of quarrels that fought themselves out and 
had better be forgotten, or of dreams that have faded 
into thin air, or of ideas, crude and partial, that have 
been outgrown by the world's advance. Study real 
facts, it is said, — the solid things that are always 
true, and once found out will remain the same for- 
ever. Leave the childhood of the world to take 
care of itself, and take the knowledge which is round 
you on every side. 

Now, I am far from disparaging the importance 
of the solid facts which these thinkers exalt to ex- 
clusive worth. By all means let the measuring rod 
and the balances weigh and measure the whole of 
the visible creation ; let the laws which bind the 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 69 

universe together be deciphered, and the human 
mind still "go sounding on its dim and perilous 
way." But still, when we speak of solid facts, is 
anything in the constitution of the earth or of the 
elements of the sun more substantial than the things 
which men have lived? Shall the fossil slab on 
which extinct creatures have left their footprints, or 
the petrified mud-beach which has been pelted by 
drops of rain in some remote epoch, be more sig- 
nificant to us than the monument of some far-off 
achievement of human courage or human faith, or 
than some immortal page which glows with the 
narrative by a soul of genius of deeds which shed 
lustre on the human race ? But, it is said, humanity 
is progressive, and the law of progress bids us look 
forward and not back. It seems to me that this 
mode of thought (and it is one which has colored 
many of our minds, even though we do not sympa- 
thize with the general drift of the school of thinkers 
who propound it) is really a confusion of thought 
arising from a mistaken carrying out of the analogy 
of progress. Because in the progress of a ship 
through the sea the waters close again behind it; 
because in that of a man through the street the 
whole of him goes forward, — it is imagined that 
the race in like manner, when it advances, takes 
the whole of itself with it. Whereas the fact really 
is, that human progress means the addition of re- 
sources, knowledges, and faiths to the accumulated 
store which it already possesses, and not the per- 
petual substitution of new for old. That people 



170 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

is the richest people which adds its present gains 
to the largest fund, so to speak, of heroic memories 
and wise experiences and deeply impressed lessons 
from older time. 

But we need only appeal to our own experience. 
We find every day that we do not cut our lives in 
twain, and put out of sight and out of thought all 
our own past. We live on its accumulated capital 
of principles of action, rules of conduct, moral con- 
victions, religious assurances, which have accrued to 
us bit by bit out of the slow years ever since we 
began to think at all. We look back in order to go 
forward, — just as it is the backward-stretching foot 
which gives the impulse, as we walk, which sends 
us on. Is it less so in the advance of humanity.? 
Can we hold for a moment that the present, so long 
as it is present, is to be all-absorbing, and the mo- 
ment it is past is to be utterly worthless ; that it is 
valuable to us while it is filled with dust and turmoil 
and pettiness, but good for nothing when the cloud 
which darkened it while shaken sinks to the bottom 
and leaves its eternal truths clear } 

Indeed, it is hardly necessary for us to reason 
with ourselves on this point ; for all our reason- 
ings will not weigh so much with us as those 
spontaneous instincts which rise up on special oc- 
casions and recall us to a sense which after all is 
deeper than our theories, — that the treasure of 
great public memories is a mighty heritage, in 
which history is full of the most present influence 
over our lives. 




PETER FANEUIL. 
(1700-1743-) 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. Ijl 

And we see at once why such a past, as has just 
been held up before us in the illuminating testimony 
of many witnesses, should be one of God's most 
potent ministers of teaching for us. It has one 
precious use which the present cannot have, from 
the very fact that it is more remote from us. We 
cannot always look dispassionately, if we would, at 
the great questions which are bound up with the 
application of religion to our own case. The very 
strength of our need of these helps and powers 
affects us too deeply to let us always feel sure that 
we can trust even the spiritual instincts which 
mightily affirm the truth of what the Christian 
Church offers in its Master's name. But when 
we study the working out of this religion by men 
remote enough from us to be unobscured by the 
mists of our own mental and spiritual atmosphere, 
we are taught to believe in its enduring and su- 
preme value. You have seen how wonderfully 
mere distance and elevation map out for a trav- 
eller the way by which he has journeyed. He goes 
on by a dusty road, 'seeing only a little way before 
or behind, but climbing, climbing, as the way winds, 
till at last he stands on the highest ridge of the 
line of hills that has enclosed his forward vision ; 
from that fresh, cool height he looks back to find 
the whole way that he has travelled laid out before 
him. What was blind before is now clear. Not 
only the way that he has come, but the whole sur- 
rounding landscape and the way which lies before 
him stand forth. 



172 king's chapel, boston. 

It is so with the journey which our parish has 
been taking from the earhest beginning of its his- 
tory. In the present, we can hardly see much 
more than the present ; but when we look back 
we see not only the past, we really see the pres- 
ent too, — how this came out from that, and what 
this really is. It has well been said, " The his- 
tory of our race is experience without the draw- 
back of passion." The experience of these two 
hundred years as we look back upon it, even in the 
partial glimpses which are all that the mysterious 
privacy of each human soul with its God allows to 
us, is the heaped up testimony of a multitude of 
God's children to the moral order and spiritual 
truth which govern the world. We see the history 
acted out by conspicuous persons in a great arena, 
and we are tempted to linger on what may be called 
the drapery and costume of the actors ; but we fail 
to look with the spiritual sympathy which alone can 
understand the real motive of their deepest lives, 
until we touch in them a human nature like our 
own, working out the great problems of destiny and 
duty under the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ, 
and with the aid of his Church. In some we behold 
clearly manifest how religion has softened and mel- 
lowed the rugged nature, in others the springs of 
gentler and nobler spirits are visited by the reviving 
grace of God ; but I do not see how any one can 
consider the fact which the living on of a church 
through seven generations indicates, without being 
profoundly impressed by its accumulated witness to 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 73 

the reality of the help and blessing for which the 
Church stands. 

I try to picture to myself those successive gener- 
ations of worshippers here as they come and go, while 
the church remains. They are very distinct each 
from each, and all from our modern world in which 
every one is blended in an indistinguishable mass, 
and the monotony of dress seems to indicate a simi- 
lar monotony of color and expression in mind and 
soul. 

First pass by the earliest group of the founders, 
on whom we dwelt in former discourses. They seem 
like persons who have stepped out from Lely's or 
Kneller s canvases, as they bring here not the dress 
only, but the manner and carriage of the Stuart 
court, — the armor and brilliant attire, the step and 
look and haughty bearing of those who represent 
the loyalty to kings reigning by divine right, among 
a people who have already breathed this free air for 
two generations. Let us speak their names once 
more — those of Andros and his lady, of Nicholson 
and Nelson, of Randolph and the worthy rector 
Ratcliffe — before they vanish from us into the 
remoter past as we enter our third century. 

Those of the next generation are harder to distin- 
guish, yet not a few names survive to us — Foxcroft 
and Lyde, Dyer and Newton, Southack and Jekyll 
— of those who are somewhat more than names, as 
they listen during the long ministry of Rev. Samuel 
Myles, and of the King's lecturers. Bridge and Har- 
ris. We hear the noise of successive controversies 



174 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

within and without the church. It is a time of 
quarrel in Churcli and State. The days of good 
Queen Anne and of the First George pass before 
us, and the rougher as well as the gentler touches 
depicted in Sir Roger de Coverley. 

Another generation presses on the former. They 
come from stately homes set deep in gardens on 
streets at the North End of the town, or from Cam- 
bridge and Medford mansions, enriched from West 
India plantations and waited on by black slaves, — 
the Vassalls and Royalls, Mascarenes and Brinleys, 
Gibbins and Read, Auchmuty and Faneuil ; Sir 
Harry Frankland, the gay young Collector of the 
Port ; and Rector Price, commissioned by Bishop 
Gibson as his commissary for New England, drawn 
by the attractions of his country home and mis- 
sion at Hopkinton more and more away from the 
town. 

So it is that we come at last to the laying of the 
corner-stone of this new church in 1749. Governor 
Shirley, waited on by Mr. Caner in his prime, and 
the wardens and vestry stand round the slab in- 
scribed " Quod felix faustumque sit Reipublicae," 
then go into the old church still enclosed in the 
trench for the new foundations, and hear the sermon 
on " The Piety of Erecting Churches to the Honour 
of God." Let those second founders of the church, 
to whom we owe this sanctuary which has been a 
home to so many for more than one hundred and 
thirty years, pass before us a moment, — the Gov- 
ernor, nobly urging forward the design of building 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 75 

when all others were discouraged, saying that it was 
"not for themselves, but posterity," and encouraging 
others by a lavish subscription ; Charles Apthorp, 
" the greatest merchant on this continent," whose 
descendants still worship among us, treasurer and 
chief mover in the building; Barlow Trecothick, 
later Lord Mayor of London ; Dr. Sylvester Gardi- 
ner, lord of a great domain to the eastward ; Cra- 
dock and Havvdins^ and Paxton. 

Yet another group now hurries by, in which some 
of those whom I have just named, now growing old, 
are the leaders, — Deblois and Erving, Price and 
Hutchinson, Chardon and Johonnot, Vincent and 
Brimmer. The church suffers with the darkeningr 
times. It is built, but not yet fully paid for, and 
the grass-grown streets of the turbulent town yield 
little revenue to its members. Still they pray loyally 
for King George, "that he may have the victory over 
all his enemies," till that March Sunday comes which 
sees them kneeling here for the last time. The old 
rector gives the benediction, and they go out of 
these doors like Adam and Eve from Paradise, with 
backward, tearful look, that would be sadder yet if 
they fully knew how the angel with flaming sword 
would stand at the portal to prevent their return. 

The fifth generation now appears within these 
pews, around the youthful reader Freeman, as he 
urges the changes in the liturgy, and once more the 
sound of discussion is heard, — Dr. Bulfinch and the 
younger Gardiner, Joseph May and Ebenezer Oliver, 
Minot and Amory, Templeman and Coolidge among 



176 king's chapel, boston. 

those who favor, Ivers and Dehon and Haskins 
among those who oppose, alteration. 

And now we are in this present century, begin- 
ning with such men as I have just named, — among 
them all Joseph May, perhaps the most serviceable 
to the church during more than fifty years' connec- 
tion with it, — and ending with the goodly company 
of those of whom some names were mentioned here 
on Wednesday with fit honor, as types of many 
more like them. 

It is far easier to trace the outward history of 
this church during most of its two hundred years, 
especially in its great historical and picturesque 
aspects, than to trace its inward and spiritual his- 
tory. This is always so, indeed ; especially where, 
as in our case, the martial music of England, the 
triumphs of great deeds of war, the thunders of the 
Revolution are almost constantly in our ears during 
the first half of this long time ; and during both the 
earlier and the later days the long roll of worship- 
pers here is constantly lighted up by the names of 
men round whom the history of their time revolved, 
or who, if less widely known, were building up this 
community in its best undertakings and character. 
The names of some of them, from the long succes- 
sion of royal governors whose escutcheons hang 
here again to-d'ay as they did a century and a half 
ago, to some of those worthy and good of our own 
day, were lately spoken again in your hearing. Of 
others, a long procession, time failed us, and is now 
wanting, to speak ; yet it is well to remind ourselves 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. I 77 

that in all this long period few persons of note have 
visited Boston who have not entered here. I like 
to think that Washington was in this church once 
and aoain, — when he came a survivor of Brad- 
dock's rout, to tell Governor Shirley of his son's 
death in that disaster, and sat, a young man in his 
Virginia colonel's uniform, in the Governor's pew; 
and ao-ain as first President of the United States, — 
while these walls are the only building remaining 
unchanged in Boston which saw the entry of his 
besieging army midway between those two points 
of time. It is pleasant to hear it recalled in what 
pew the mighty brow of Daniel Webster used to be 
seen, when from time to time he appeared in this 
company of worshippers ; and that the elder and 
the younger President Adams are remembered here, 
as well as their illustrious descendant who has so 
recently passed to their companionship. 

But let us not be dazzled by the old splendors of 
courtly pageants and great public events and high 
personages, which echo or are seen here the mo- 
ment we stop long enough to listen to the voice of 
the great past, — so as to forget that all the time 
a real spiritual history has been evolving itself in 
many souls through seven generations. It has well 
been said : " But while we recall from the past 
the outward history of this church, we cannot 
help remembering that within it all there ran a 
deep spiritual history that developed into richer and 
more enduring forms than architectural products. 
What chapters of religious biography were frescoed 

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178 king's chapel, boston. 

upon the walls of those old churches, not visible to 
human eyes, but seen by God and the ministering 
angels! How many understandings were divinely 
taught, and stricken hearts healed, and longing 
souls filled, and wavering wills confirmed for God! 
. . . It must have been so. God would not let 
his Gospel live an unfertile life so long. The cov- 
enanted presence went with the holy things of the 
temple, and Christ was in the midst of his disciples 
according to his word." 

We are not left to imagination in trying to 
represent to ourselves what was the spiritual food 
on which those earlier generations were fed here. 
They belonged to the Church of England in its 
eighteenth-century form, and shared its thouglits, 
and doubtless were shut in by its limitations. The 
library which King William III. gave to the King's 
Chapel, and which is preserved, shows what books 
our earlier ministers read and doubtless distilled 
into many a sermon. The divine rights of rulers 
and the apostolic claims of the Church must have 
made a part of the teaching of the church which 
stood here confronted with the children of Puritan- 
ism. The doctrines of Orthodoxy were taught, but 
in a somewhat gentler form than that proclaimed 
in their churches. The imagination of Jeremy 
Taylor must have lighted up some of the ser- 
mons preached here ; but they were probably built 
for the most part on the lines laid down by Tillot- 
son, Beveridge, Sherlock, and Butler, — the clear, 
calm, cool method of converting by argument from 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 79 

the evidences of Christianity, and appealing to a 
utihtarian philosophy to make men good for their 
best advantage in both worlds. Such is the ground- 
work of those few discourses by our earlier min- 
isters, — Myles, Harward, Price, and Caner, — which 
have survived to us. Meantime, however, we know 
that mightier voices were heard here or in the 
wooden church, chief among them that of Charles 
Wesley, — the father, in a better sense than even 
his brother John, of that great spiritual renewal of 
English life which we call Methodism. Here, too, 
Bishop Berkeley preached, — the author of a system 
of pure idealism in philosophy as against the com- 
mon-sense philosophy of the school of Locke. And 
George Whitefield, the mightiest preacher whose 
tones ever shook the sinner's soul, here sat a silent 
worshipper only, and had to seek his audiences in 
Dissenting meeting-houses or on the Common. 

The type of religious character which the churches 
of that century educated was marked with the de- 
fects as well as the strengths of the time. It did 
not believe in fervors. " Enthusiasm " was its spe- 
cial dread. Yet side by side with its quiet training 
of the sober virtues of character and of religious 
habits, we can trace in the letters and diaries of 
men and women who worshipped here in those old 
days a devout dependence upon God and sense of 
communion with him, which show how genuine and 
vital was the living faith which was nourished here 
by the prayers and the altar which were the heart 
of the church. 



i8o king's chapel, boston. 

With the later period we come into a time which 
is known to us more directly, either by memory of 
more recent years or by tradition. Still, the general 
habit of this parish remained. The changes in its lit- 
urgy did not violently sunder it, in its own feeling, 
from the past, however they might seem to others. 
What they did was to relieve the consciences of 
the worshippers by omitting that which seemed to 
them not Scriptural, and bringing the worship into 
accord with the language of the Bible, which to all 
Christians is the most hallowed of books. Nor did 
the character of the preaching change as much as 
might be supposed. Dr. Freeman's mind was also 
shaped by the eighteenth-century divines. His phi- 
losophy was that of Priestley. On disputed doctrine 
he hardly ever preached, after the few sermons a 
hundred years ago which led his people to modify 
the prayer-book. His sermons were practical, un- 
emotional, devoted to edifying his people in prac- 
tical goodness and charity. A warmer glow of 
feeling and a deeper spiritual insight enriched this 
pulpit under his successors, to whom you heard 
such testimonials at our service of commemoration. 
But throughout, as I read the history of this parish, 
its solid, sober, genuine religious qualities remained 
the same. We know what the character, not moral 
only but religious, has been, the sturdy strength and 
pillared rectitude, which has made men sure what 
they could find here, and made this church stand 
for something like its own house of worship in this 
community, — as King's Chapel itself stands in 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. l8l 

these streets with firm, solid, rocky walls, but within, 
perhaps unknown by the multitudes who pass and 
repass, a very shrine of faith. We know, too, many 
of us, the hidden things of religious experience in 
which souls have found here, and still find, that 
God is not far from them, and the call of Christ 
rouses all within them to " rise up and follow." 

The immense changes which have altered all the 
habits of life more in the last fifty years than in the 
previous five hundred introduce new and difficult 
problems in regard to the Church, and especially, 
perhaps, in regard to such a church as this. No 
thoughtful person can avoid seeing or can help re- 
gretting the loosening of the bonds of religious habit 
in great communities like our city. The causes 
for it are many, — some of them are bad, some not 
wholly so, or are at any rate, in the particular case 
of the men and women who have dropped the 
church-s^oins: habit out of their lives, the natural 
result of a whole network of conditions in which 
they are bound. It by no means follows, indeed, 
that because they can hardly help it they are not 
hurt by it. Nor because the American Sunday 
is not yet shaped into its final form, does it by 
any means follow that it will end by being no 
Sunday at all, or that the Church and the great 
institution of public worship are going to fade 
away under our Western sky. Still, the case is 
very different with any particular church in the 
loosely knit multitude of heterogeneous and often 



Ib2 KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

indifferent persons that make up the mass of a 
large city, from what it was in the compact town 
of our fathers, where everybody went to church, 
talked about it, and often, it must be confessed, 
fought about it. 

Two special difficulties confront this church, the 
necessary result of the growth of Boston ; and both 
have come in our own time. When this house was 
built, it stood near the westward limit of population. 
The great hill which rose with its beacon just be- 
yond, like a wall held back the tide upon this side ; 
and the church sat as a queen among the happy 
homes of its people that nestled in the crooked 
lanes and streets of the old town. Probably there 
was hardly a house in the parish so far away as not 
to hear the deep note of our bell calling to worship, 
in the profound hush and Sunday quiet of the town. 
Only those dignitaries who came in state in their 
chariots from the suburbs, by the roundabout way 
across the Neck, or crossing the Ferry from the 
northward, were beyond its reach. But now for a 
quarter of a century the sun as it moves toward 
its setting has steadily been drawing the habita- 
tions of this people after it, as the moon draws the 
tides; and while other churches have floated with 
the current, this is anchored fast in its old holding- 
ground. True, its hold upon the affections and loy- 
alty of its members is exceptionally strong. Our 
commemoration must have made us all feel that, 
and feel why it is so. But the cable is continually 
lengthening by which they are held to it. 




REV. JAMES FREEMAN. 
(Reader 17S2 ; Rector 17S7-1S36.) 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 83 

And then there is the enormous chansfe which 

O 

has come over all the fixed family life of the old time, 
in consequence of the altered summer habits of our 
community. In the old time, the only home was 
within almost a stone's throw of this spot ; and on 
all the fifty-two Sundays of the year the preacher 
knew that he would see the bulk of his cono:reoa- 
tion in their familiar places. But now, perhaps you 
do not even yourselves quite know how universally it 
is otherwise. I believe that members of this par- 
ish have permanent summer homes of their own in 
at least sixty different New England towns and 
villages, besides the wider migration which every 
season brings. For several months of every year, I 
can count on my fingers all the families who remain 
at home in the city, and for a still longer time this 
church has vast desert spaces intervening between 
its inhabited spots. Even those of you who go 
only to a short distance have church relations for 
a considerable part of the year there and not here, 
and the country churches rightly depend on the 
help which thus comes within their doors. 

Thus the conditions are altered in two respects : 
I. As regards the work of the church itself, it be- 
comes more and more clear that during that portion 
of the year it should set its face steadily to do what 
it can for the multitudes that never cease to pass 
here winter and summer. When its proper work as 
a parish family church shrinks like a brook in its 
channel under the midsummer sun, it has still a 
gospel to preach and a work to do, and those who 



184 king's chapel, boston. 

are absent from it should know that this work is still 
being done. 2. As regards the members of this 
parish, I would ask you to feel that the modern free- 
doms and enlargements of your life do not emanci- 
pate from the duty of standing by and showing your 
belief in your church. If the time when it can do 
its full work and show itself in complete life and 
strenfjth is shortened to six or seven of the twelve 
months, all the more does your church ask you not 
to let any light thing stand between you and it, when 
you are within reach of it. If we have to compress 
our life into a fraction of the year, all the more let 
us be really alive in that. And then there is much 
in keeping faithful the loyal habit of thinking of 
your church when you are absent from it. We can 
carry it with us to a peculiar degree. This Book 
of Prayer which contains so much of its worship 
and its character is ready to bring the atmosphere 
of its devotions and the very shadow of its pillared 
arches into your summer Sundays, and to keep you 
in accord with the deep thoughts which belong 
here. I am glad to testify that not a few do so 
feed the springs of their own souls while absent 
from this old home of their faith, — as I have seen 
in the far West the waters led down from the snowy 
heights of the Wasatch Mountains to irrigate the 
thirsty plains below fainting under the hot sun, and 
flowing freshly through dry and dusty places, to 
make " the wilderness blossom as the rose ; " and 
then when the stream of life flows back here again 
it fills our fountains full of life and power. 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 85 

Moreover, in the wide changes which have come 
over the churches of various names, a Christian 
church, with the double and blended inheritance 
which is peculiarly ours, has a large work to do, if 
it will loyally and faithfully set itself to the full use 
of its opportunities. It occupies a mediatorial po- 
sition, so to speak, in relation to widely divergent 
states of thought and feeling in this age of fluent 
and fermenting opinions. Few of us have an ade- 
quate sense of the modification of thought, still more 
of the enlargement of charity, which is going on 
in what are called the Orthodox bodies around us. 
There can be no doubt that many in the Trinitarian 
Congregational Church of New England to-day re- 
gret the spirit and policy which prevailed in that 
body seventy years ago, and which excluded the 
Unitarian Congregationalists from that communion. 
In the Protestant Episcopal Church a spirit broad, 
noble, and generous is resolutely striving against a 
more narrow, hard, and arrogant temper. The great 
problem which American Christendom has to solve 
is the question how to reconcile a wise conservatism 
with a rational spirit of progress. Toward that 
solution it seems to me that a church can do some- 
thing — perhaps much — which occupies historically 
and religiously the mediatorial ground where this 
church has been placed by the providence of God. 
I am fain to think that something has been done to 
bring the kingdom of God nearer by the welcome 
and respectful hearing which has been given here 

in recent years to men like the beloved Diman, too 

24 



1 86 king's chapel, boston. 

early taken from us, and to others of the same 
generous Christian sympathies among the living. 
Whoever represents in the different branches of 
the Church of Christ the spirit of light, of truth, 
of faith, which alone can lift American Christendom 
out of mere sectarianism into a higher and serener 
air, oucht to be at home in a church which seeks 
to shape its worship and its faith according to 
the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ. 

In this transitional time the peculiar denomi- 
national freedom of King's Chapel ought to be very 
precious to us. By the course of events in the past, 
this church was compelled largely to stand alone. 
It has never since so entered into other ecclesias- 
tical relations as to subject itself to the vote or 
authority of any other organization. To-day, in 
fraternal good-will to all, and especially to those 
most in affinity with our profound conviction that 
Jesus Christ is larger than any men's interpretations 
of him, it will sympathize with those things which 
make for the cause of that simple, broad, unsecta- 
rian yet positive Christianity which is in the line of 
its traditions and its worship and its faith. What- 
ever is discordant therewith it will frankly dissent 
from ; and never, so long as it is faithful to its reli- 
gious history and to the reverent Scriptural usages 
of its Christian tradition, can it give aid or sympa- 
thy to anything which is not supremely loyal to its 
Master and Lord. 

The question of methods and details of parish 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 187 

work hardly belongs in this larger survey which we 
have been taking of our whole position and oppor- 
tunity. Yet we must not forget that it is the duty 
of those who love their church to be ready to learn 
from the new time whatever it has to teach in these 
ways. There is not a little in the modern ma- 
chinery of church life which does not really help 
the true life of any church ; and there are things, 
too, which are suited for one church but not for 
another. But it would be strange if in two hundred 
years nothing had been discovered of universal value 
in religious administration. I believe that if this 
parish will look for such helps and use them, its 
later centuries may be its best as well as its most 
useful. In these later years some such steps 
have been taken, greatly, as we all agree, for the 
common good and life. Other things have been 
proposed, but have not commanded that general 
agreement which is vital to success ; yet they still 
appear to me, in looking to the future, to be wise 
and necessary for the adequate enlargement of the 
parish life and work. 

This parish has had the gift of stability to an 
unusual degree, not only standing on the same spot 
for seven generations, but standing solidly in the 
same general characteristic qualities, and even con- 
tinuing the tradition of family parish life through 
all. We still have with us descendants of a sub- 
scriber to the first building, two hundred years ago, 
and not a few representatives of those who^ built 
this statelier church, and many who are here in the 



1 88 king's chapel, boston. 

third and fourth generation. Many, too, are with 
us who have come in these later days, and take 
their honored part no less with us. It is in this 
blendino: of the old with the new, of the new with 
the old, that not a little of our strength consists. It 
is for the children of this generation to continue 
that sense of belonging here, of caring for their 
church and intending to serve it, if it is to go on 
with the life of the new century as it went with those 
before. I would plead especially with the men of 
this parish to remember how much depends on their 
interest and care and faithfulness, for the help or 
the hurt of the best life of their church. 

As we look back on the long story, there are rea- 
sons why we may well recall it, not as an antiqua- 
rian record, nor even only as a great chapter of his- 
tory, full of light and color, to take pride in. It is 
good for us to dwell upon, till we feel ourselves also 
a part of the procession of the generations ; for it 
makes on us a constant impression of character, of 
religion, and of stability in the best things. Those 
men who really give the parish its life, as far back as 
we can see them through the mists of the past and 
down to those who made it a quarter of a century 
ago, are essentially the same in solid worth, in self- 
reliant sturdy vigor, compelling in each age the re- 
spect if not always winning the liking of the world 
around, — men willing to contend for their convic- 
tions and (what is much harder) to suffer for them. 
These men have stood for something substantial 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. 1 89 

and sure, and their church has so stood, all the way 
along. 

We trace the thread again, from the old loyalty 
and the old history, through the inspiring witness 
of this church, through its best lives, to the glory of 
the Christian ministry and the largeness of the 
Christian work of a living church, — its memories 
which inspire rather than sadden ; its great teach- 
ing of worship and reverence ; its conserving of 
the moral and spiritual treasures which the ages 
have so painfully won and may so easily misprize. 
But the Church should be something more than 
a conserver ; it should also be an inspirer. These 
treasures are ours to keep, not by hiding in a napkin, 
but as the woman in the parable hid the leaven in 
three measures of meal till the whole was leavened ; 
or as the children of Israel had the sacred ark of 
the covenant, not to sit down beside it as something 
too holy to move, but that it might march before 
them in the wilderness. So the story of what this 
church has done would not be complete unless you 
could tell not only that it had guarded well the 
accumulated sacredness of what prophets saw and 
apostles proclaimed, of what the slow experience 
of the believing generations has assured to us, but 
that here constantly new souls had been fired with 
the vision of God's truth, lifted above their weak- 
ness by His strength, out of their temptations and 
darkness into His light, — the Living Witness of 
the Spirit making the old new by the present power 
of the Christ of God. 



IQO KINGS CHAPEL, BOSTON. 

And now, as we stand at the beginning of this 
new century of our church life, may it be with new 
hope and fresh courage for the untried way that 
opens before us, — resolved that we will look for 
God to lead us to larger vision, and that we will 
rise with His help to our opportunity, holding fast 
to all that He has given us, pressing forward ever 
to " that which is before." 



INDEX. 



INDEX. 



Aaron and Hiir, T29. 

Adams, Charles Francis, tribute to, 

137- 
Adams, President, 177. 
Addington, Mr., 27. 
Ainswortli, Henry, psalmody of, 18. 
Allen, Rev. John, 46. 
American process, the, 23. 
Ames, Lieut.-Gov. Oliver, 73 ; letter 

from, 145. 
Amory, John, 175. 
Andrew, Gov. John A., brings bodies 

of Massachusetts soldiers to King's 

Chapel, 87. 
Andros, Lady, 83, 173. 
Andros, Sir Edmund, description of, 

24, 26, 42, 44. 45, 46, 63, 83, 91, 

173; commission of, 43; arms of, 

62 ; portrait of, 71 ; founder of the 

earliest church, 100. 
Anne, Queen, 63, 174. 
Antego, 40. 

Apthorp, Charles, 85, 175. 
" Arbella," the, 35. 
Atkinson, Miss, 150. 
Auchmuty, Robert, 174. 

Ball, Thomas, letter from, 152. 

Bankes, Richard, 64. 

Baptists, the early, 20. 

Barber, Prof. Henry H., letter from, 

154- 
Bartlett, J. C, 66. 
Bartol, Cyrus A., D.D., letter from, 

155- 
Bay Psalm Book, The, 31. 
Beacon Hill, 31. 
Belcher, Gov. Jonathan, 63 ; arms of, 

62 ; portrait of, 70. 



Bellomont, arms of the Earl of, 62. 
Berkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne, 

179. 
Bernard, Sir Francis, 63. 
Berry, J. K., 66. 
Beveridge, William, Bishop of St. 

Asaph, 178. 
Bicknell, Thomas W., letter from, 147. 
Bigelow, Hon. George Tyler, tribute 

to, 137- 
Bishop of London, Randolph's letters 

to, 21, 24, 25. 
Blackburn, Jonathan B., artist, 84. 
Blake, Mrs. George Baty, 74. 
Boott, the family of, 151. 
Bossuet's varieties of Protestantism, 

20. 
Boston, evacuation of, 63, 65. 
Boys and negroes in the early con- 
gregation, 24. 
Braddock's rout, 177. 
Bremen, the Rathhaus of, 35. 
Brewer, Gardner, 135. 
Bridge, Rev. Christopher, 64, 85, 173. 
Brimmer, Martin, 175. 
Brinley, Francis, letter from, 152. 
Brinley, the family of, 174. 
British Army and Navy, officers of, 

84. 
Broad Street, the, 31. 
Brockwell, Rev. Charles, 64. 
Brooks, Phillips, D.D., 60; address 

of, 112. 
Buckminster, Rev. Joseph Stevens, 

128. 
Bulfinch, Rev. Stephen Greenleaf, 

Bulfinch, Dr. Thomas, 175. 
Bulfinch, Thomas, tribute to, 136. 



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194 



INDEX. 



Bulfinch, the family of, 129, 151. 

Bulfinch, Madam, gift of, 65. 

Bullard, Francis, 66. 

Bullivant, Benjamin, 64. 

Bunker Hill, 63, 86. 

Burnet, Gov. William, 63; arms of, 

62 ; portrait of, 70. 
Burnett, Deacon John, gift of, 65. 
Butler, Joseph, Bishop of Durham, 

178. 
Byles, Rev. Mather, 131. 

Caner, Henry, D.D., 64, 84, 95, 179; 
sermon on laying corner-stone of 
King's Chapel, quoted, 88. 

Canterbury, William Bancroft, Arch- 
bishop of, 38. 

Gary, Nathaniel, gift of, 65. 

Cary, Rev. Samuel, 64, 74; tribute 
to, 150. 

Catechising of children in King's 
Chapel, 153. 

Chadvvick, Rev. John W., letter from, 

155- 
Channing, William Ellery, D.D., 12S. 

Chardon, Peter, 175. 

Charles the First, King, 14, 19, 22 ; 
beheading of, 48, 49. 

Charles the Second, King, 19, 22, 25, 
49. 

Charles River, the, 37. 

Checkley family, arms of the, 62. 

Cheverus, Jean Louis Anne Made- 
leine Lefevre d,e. Bishop of Boston, 

131- 

Christ Church, Boston, services in, 

34, 85. 

Christ Church in Philadelphia, 102. 

Church and State, seventeenth-cen- 
tury idea of, 47. 

Church of England, feared by the 
Puritans, 21 ; first meeting of mem- 
bers of, 38 ; first administration of 
the prayers and ordinances of, 63 ; 
worship of the, first had by author- 
ity, 82 ; parishes in Boston, 85. 

Clark, one Mr., 40. 

Clarke, James Freeman, D.D. 4, 61, 
127, 152; address of, 128; poem 
by, 130. 



Clarke, Rev. Josiah, 64. 

Clarke, Miss Sarah H., 70. 

Collects read in Commemoration 
Services, 77, 78. 

Collyer, Rev. Robert, letter from, 155. 

Commemorative Services, descrip- 
tion of, 69; programme of, 53-66. 

Committee, report of plan of celebra- 
tion of 200th Anniversary, 4. 

Common Prayer, first public admin- 
istration of, 28. 

Commonwealth, portrait loaned by 
the, 62. 

Communion plate of King's Chapel, 
65, 78, 85. 

Compton, Henry, Bishop of London, 
44. 

Congregational Churches, watch and 
ward of, 22. 

Consecration service for a church, 
quoted, 80. 

Coolidge, the family of, 151. 

Coolidge, Mrs. Catharine, gift of, 65. 

Coolidge, John G., 66. 

Coolidge, Joseph, 129, 175. 

Coolidge, Joseph, tribute to, 137. 

Coolidge, J. Randolph, jr., 3,6, 53,64. 

Coolidge, J. Templeman, 3d, 6, 53; 
services of, 72. 

Copley, John Singleton, 132. 

Cordner, Rev. John, LL.D., 6r. 

Correspondence on the occasion of 
the sooth Anniversary of King's 
Chapel, 145-164. 

Cotton, Rev. John, 19, 31, 82, 97. 

Covenanters, the Scotch, 22. 

Coverley, Sir Roger de, 174. 

Cradock, George, 175. 

Cromwell, Oliver, quoted, 15. 

Curtis, Charles Pelham, 64, 104, 136, 

151- 
Curtis, Charles P . jr., 66. 
Curtis, Greely S., 3, 6, 53, 64. 
Curtis, the family of, 129. 

D ALTON, the family of, 151. 
Davenport, Rev. Addington, 64, 112. 
Deane, Charles, LL.D., letter of Dr. 

Howe to, 31. 
Deblois, Gilbert and Lewis, 175. 



INDEX. 



195 



Declaration, the, deposing Andros, 
42. 

Decoration of King's Chapel for 
200th Anniversary, 69-72. 

Dehon, Theodore, 175. 

Dennison, General, 153. 

De Tocqiieville, quoted, 94. 

Diman, Prof. J. Lewis, 1S5. 

Douthit, Rev. Jasper L., letter from, 
156. 

Dudley, Gov. Joseph, 26, 27, 29, 39, 
40, 42, 63, 147 ; arms of, 62 ; por- 
trait of, 70, 81, 108. 

Dudley, Mrs. Rebecca, portrait of, 
70. 

Dudley, Thomas, 19. 

Dummer, Lieut.-Governor, portrait 

of, 70, 71. 
Dyer, Col. Giles, 173. 

Ecclesiastical Commission, the, 

of King James, 44. 
Eckley, Rev. Joseph, ordination of. 

Id, 107. 
Edmands, Miss Gertrude, 66. 
Eliot, President Charles William, 

LL.D., 60, 73, 128; address of, 

109. 
Eliot, Hon. Samuel Atldns, tribute 

to, 136. 
Elliott, Miss Louise, 66. 
Ellis, George Edward, D.D., LL.D., 

59; address of, 96. 
Ellis, Rufus, D.D., baptism of, 103 ; 

description of Early Puritan Wor- 
ship, quoted from, 18. 
Emerson, George Barrel], LL.D., 

tributes to, 137, 162. 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quoted, 

92. 
Emigration, the Great, 35. 
Endicott, Hon. William C, letter 

from, 141;. 
Endicott, William, 3d, 66. 
Episcopal Church, a representative 

of, 5. 
Episcopalian, the modern, 21. 
Erviu':;, John, 175. 
Escutcheons hung in the church, 62, 

71- 



Eustis, Gen. Abram, 153. 
Everett, Hon. Edward, LL.D., 128. 
Everett, Dr. William, original hymn 
by. 5S, 95- 

Faneuil Hall, 86. 

Faneuil, Peter, 174; portrait of, 70, 

81. 
Farley, Frederick Augustus, D.D., 4, 

57, 73. 76; letter from, 148-152. 
Fenderson, Mrs. E. C, 66. 

First Church, ii, 20, 74, 82, 95. 

First Church of Salem, 36. 

Flags used in the decoration of the 

church, 62, 70, 71, 72. 
" Formes for the servise of the 

church," St,. 
Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder, 5. 6, 53, 

58, 64 ; historical sermons by, on 
the occasion of the completion of 
200 years since the foundation of 
King's Chapel, 11-52; prayer by 
78; address of, 80; closing ser- 
mon by, 167-igo. 

Foxcroft, Francis, 173. 

Fo,xcroft family, arms of the, 62. 

Francisca (Shirley), monument of 
the fair, 132. 

Frankland, Sir Harry, 174. 

Franklin, Dr. Benjamin, 156. 

Franklin, Miss Gertrude, 66. 

Freeman, James, D.D., 64, 74, 102, 
127, 128, 129, 148, 153, 180; por- 
trait of, 70, 71 ; preface to King's 
Chapel prayer-book, quoted, 88; 
tribute to, 148. 

Furness, William H., D.D., letter 
from, 157. 

Gage, General Thomas, 63. 
Gannett, Rev. William C., letter 

from, 158. 
Gardiner, John, 175. 
Gardiner, Dr. Sylvester, 175. 
Gardner, John L., gift of, 65. 
Gedney, Captain, 27, 29. 
General Court, the, 27 ; receive the 

exemplification of the Charter's 

condemnation, 27. 
George, Captain, 26, 27. 



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INDEX. 



George I., King, 174. 

George II., King, 85; gift of, 65. 

George III., King, gift of, 65. 

George, prayer for King, 175. 

Gibbins, Dr. Jolin, 174. 

Goddard, Dr. C. W., 66. 

" God's acre," the earliest, 35. 

Gordon, Rev. George Angier, 59 ; 
address of, 105. 

Gore, Governor, 74; family of, 151. 

Gorton, Samuel, 20. 

Governor of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, the, 4, 5S, 73. 

Governor's pew in King's Chapel, 
128 ; restored, 72. 

Great Britain, declaration of peace 
with, 128; loyalty to, 22. 

Green, Samuel S., letter from, 152. 

Greenwood, Francis William Pitt, 
D.D., 64, 74, 87, 149, 151, 154, 162; 
tributes to, 102, 129, 146, 162; his- 
tory of King's Chapel by, quoted, 

38,41. 51- 
Grew, Edward S., 6, 53. 
Guliger, artist, 70. 

Hackney, tune, 18. 

Hall, Thomas B., 6, 53, 64. 

Hamilton, Capt. Francis, arms of, 

62, 71. 
Handel, anthem by, sung, 61 ; said 

to have touched the organ, 85. 
Harris, Rev. Henry, 64, 173. 
Harvard University, the president 

of, 60; 250th anniversary of, 12; 

introduction of president of, loS. 
Harward, Rev. Thomas, 64, 179. 
Haskins, John, 175. 
Hatton, Rev. George, 64. 
Hawding, Thomas, 175. 
Higginson, George, 3, 6, 53, 64. 
Hinkley, Governor Thomas, 27. 
Hoar, Hon. George Frisbie, letter 

from, 146. 
HoUey, Rev. Horace, T31. 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, M.D., 

LL.D., D.C.L., 5, 61, 73, 127, 130; 

hymn by, 60; introduction of, 131 ; 

poem by, 131. 
Homans, Dr. John, 2d, 66. 



Horton, Rev. Edward A., letter from, 

158. 
Hosmer, Rev. Frederic L., letter 

from, 158. 
Howe, Dr. Estes, letter of, 31. 
Hull, John, mint-master, 31. 
Hunt, Rev. John, 106. 
Huntington, Rt. Rev. Frederic D., 

D.D.. letter from, 154. 
Hutchinson, Eliakim, 175. 
Hutchinson, Gov. Thomas, portrait 

of, 70, 81. 
Hutchinson, Mrs. Anne, 20. 

I VERS, James, 175. 

Jackson, Dr. James, 103, 136. 
Jackson, Patrick T., 3, 6, 53, 64. 
James I., King, 14. 
James II., King, 49, 54. 
Jekyll, John, 173. 
Johonnot, Andrew, 175. 
Josselyn, John, 23, 36. 
Joyliffe, Mr., pew of, in South Meet- 
ing-house, 24. 

Keayne, Capt. Robert, legacy of, 37. 

Kehew, Miss Elene Buttington, 66. 

" Kingfisher," ship of war, 71. 

King's Chapel, connection of, with 
the English state, 22 ; first meet- 
ing for organ iz.iti on of, 63 ; first 
administration of Lord's Supper, 
63 ; occupancy of South Meeting 
House, 63; first built of wood, 63: 
first opened for service, 63 ; known 
as Queen's Chapel, 63 ; present 
church erected, 63 ; governors con- 
nected with, 63; first service after 
evacuation of Boston, 63 ; wor- 
shipped with Trinity Church dur- 
ing the Revolution, 63 ; permitted 
Old South Church to occupy it, 
63 ; the earliest, 83 ; liturgy, 63, 86, 
102; tributes to, 151, 160; com- 
munion service in, 156 ; library, 
178; denominational freedom of, 
186. 

King's lecturer, the, loi. 

King's lecturers, roll of, 64. 



INDEX. 



197 



Kneller, Sir Godfrey, artist, 70, 175. 
Knowles, Sir Charles, 85. 

Lamb, Horace A., 6, 53. 

Lamprell and Marble, decorators, 72. 

Lasker, Rev. Raphael, letter from, 

159- 

Laud, William, Archbishop of Can- 
terbury, 21. 

Lechford, Thomas, 23. 

Lely, Sir Peter, artist, 70, 173. 

" Lethargy," the liturgy so described 
by Randolph, 41, 97. 

Leverett, Governor, wharf of, 43. 

Liopoldt, F., artist, 70. 

Liturgy of King's Chapel, altered, 63, 
180. 

Livermore, Abiel Abbot, D.D., letter 
from, 159. 

London, the Bishop of, 38, 43. 

Loring, the Misses, portrait belong- 
ing to, 62, 71. 

Louis XIV., King, Si. 

Louisburg, triumph of, 81. 

Lowell, A. Lawrence, 6, 53, 64. 

Lowell, Francis C, 6, 53. 

Lowell, Francis C, tribute to, 137. 

Lowell, John Amory, tributes to, 136, 
162. 

Lyde, Edward, 173. 

Lyman, Arthur, 66. 

Lyman, Arthur T., 3, 64. 

Lyman, Herbert, 66. 

Martinique^ disaster of, 81. 

Mascarene, the family of, 174. 

Mason, Mr., 27, 29, 39. 

Massachusetts Bay, banners of, 81. 

Massachusetts, commercial indepen- 
dence of, 22. 

Massachusetts Historical Society, 
portraits loaned by, 62, 70 ; presi- 
dent of, 59, 74 ; proceedings re- 
ferred to, 31 ; rooms of, 95. 

Mather, Rev. Cotton, 46. 

Mather, Rev. Increase, 45. 

Mathers, the, 20, 82. 

Mather's " Psalterium Americanum," 

59- 
May family, 151. 



May, Col. Joseph, 73, 129, 175, 176; 

monument of, 127 ; gift of, 65. 
May, Rev. Joseph, 73, 127 ; letter 

from, 160. 
May, Rev. Samuel Joseph, 151. 
Mayor of Boston, 73. 
Meeting-house, use of, to preach in, 

denied, 29. 
Memorial Hall of Harvard College, 

29- 

Memorial volume authorized, 5. 

Minister of King's Chapel, communi- 
cation from, 3. 

Ministers of King's Chapel, roll of, 
64. 

Ministers, the five Boston, confront- 
ing Andros, 45. 

Minns, Thomas, 6, 53. 

Minot, George R., 6, 53. 

Minot, Hon. George Richards, 177. 

Minot, George R., Mrs., 62 ; portrait 
belonging to family of, 71. 

Minot, William, 55 ; address of wel- 
come, 75 ; introductions by, 80, 88, 

95- 

Minot, William, tribute to, 129, 136. 

Monument to commemorate the oc- 
casion of the Two Hundredth 
Anniversary of King's Chapel, 5. 

Moody, Rev. Joshua, 46. 

Morison, John Hopkins, D.D., 60; 
address of, 122. 

Motley, the family of, 151. 

Mountfort family, arms of the, 62. 

Music, arrangement of, 74. 

Myles, Rev. Samuel, 64, 84, 173, 179. 

Nantasket, 26. 

Nelson, John, 87, 147, 173. 

Newbury, the Second Church in, 59. 

New England, His Majesty's territory 
and dominion of, 54. 

New England Historical Genealogi- 
cal Society, the president of, 147. 

New England, polity of, 13, 22, 23. 

New Jerusalem Church, First, loan 
of communion silver to, 161. 

New North Church in Boston, com- 
munion plate of the, 65. 

New South Church, the, 103. 



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Newton, Thomas, 173. 

Nicholson, Sir Francis, 173; arms of, 

62, 71. 
Northampton, 104, 106. 
North, Rev. F. Mason, letter from, 

160. 
Nowell, Mr. Samuel, prayer of, 27. 

O'Brien, Mayor, letter from, 145. 

Old Church, the, 30. 

Old South Church, 20. 

Old South Church, expiation to, 86. 

Old South Church, minister of, 5, 59, 

74- 
Oliver, Ebenezer, 177; gift of, 65. 
Oliver, the family of, 129. 
Orthodox bodies, modification of 

thought in, 185. 
Osgood, Samuel, D.D., gift of, 65. 

Paddock, Rt. Rev. Benjamin H., 

D.D., letter from, 154. 
Paige, Captain, 26. 
Paige, James William, gift of, 65. 
Parker, George J., 66. 
Parks, Rev. Leighton, letter from, 

161. 
Paxton, Charles, 175. 
Peabody, Andrew Preston, D.D., 

LL.D., 5, 61, 74 ; introduction of, 

133 ; address of, 134. 
Peabody, Ephraim, D.D., 64, 73, 

74, 87 ; commemorated in address 

of Dr. Morison, 122; described, 

129; tributes to, 122, 129, 147, 159, 

162. 
Peabody, Prof. Francis Greenwood, 

4, 61, 76, 79; introduction of, 134; 

address of, 13S. 
Peabody, Robert S., services of, 72. 
Pemberton Square, 31. 
Pepperell, Sir William, 85. 
Perkins, William, 3, 5, 53, 64. 
Peter, Rev. Hugh, 36. 
Pickering, Edward, tribute to, 137. 
Piedmont, massacre in, 28. 
Places of worship of King's Chapel, 

63- 
Playford's " Whole Book of Psalms," 

57- 



Plummer Professor in Harvard Uni- 
versity, the, 61, 138; Emeritus in 
Harvard University, the, 61, 133, 

134- 
Portraits, flags, and arms employed 

in the decoration. 62. 
Portraits employed in the decoration, 

list of, 70. 
Port Royal, triumph of, 81. 
Pownall, Gov. Thomas, 63; arms of, 

62 ; portrait of, 70. 
Pratt, artist, 70. 
Pratt, the family of, 151. 
Prayer-meetings in King's Chapel» 

early morning, 156. 
" Prayers of ye Church," S^. 
President of Harvard College, 4. 
Price, Rev. Commissary Roger, 64. 

84, 174, 179; arms of, 62; lays 

corner-stone of Trinity Church, 

112; inaugurates services of Trin- 
ity Church, 112. 
Price, William, 175. 
Prison Lane, 30. 
Proposed book of Common Prayer, 

102. 
Proprietors of King's Chapel, annual 

meeting of, 3. 
Protestant Episcopal Church, the, 

51, 74, 102. 
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of 

Massachusetts, Right Reverend 

Bishop of. III. 
Province House, the, 62. 
Psalms read in the Commemoration 

Services, 55, 57, 76. 
Psalm, the eighty-fourth, Version of, 

sung, 57 ; twenty-third. Version of, 

sung, 59. 
Puritans, the English, 22. 
Puritans, the, to be held in honor, 

14. 
Putnam, Alfred P., D.D., letter from, 

163. 
Pynchon, Major, 27, 29. 

Quaker, the, 20, 21. 

Quebec, triumph of, 81. 

Queen's Chapel, the, 63. 

Quincy granite, first quarrying of, 84. 



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Randolph, Edward, 27, 29, 39, 40, 
42, 43, 97, 173. 

Randolph, Edward, quoted, 2r, 24, 
25, 26, 40, 44. 

Randolph, Mrs., curtesy in prayer- 
time, 24. 

Ratcliffe, Rev. Robert, 25, 26, 28, 29, 

30. 36, 37. 39. 4^. 64, ^2, 173; au- 
tograph of. 63. 

Read, Hon. John, 174. 

Reed, Rev. James, letter from, 161. 

Record Book, first page of the 
earliest, 54. 

Remick, H. T., 66. 

Revere, John, 3, 64. 

Revolution, the, 86, loi. 

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 132. 

Rhode Island, a safety-valve, 20. 

Richardson, Hon. George C, 64. 

" Robison, Esq.," 40. 

Robins, Edward B., 66. 

Robinson, Gov. George Dexter, 
LLD., 58; address of, 89. 

Roe, Rev. Stephen, 64. 

Roland, the stone, in Bremen, 35, 

36. 

Roman Catholic King, the represen- 
tative of, 42. 

" Rose " frigate, the, 26. 

Roxbury, 31. 

Royal Arms from Old Province 
House, 62, 72. 

Royall, the family of, 174. 

Sacrament, the first, 12, 40, 83. 

Salem, 36. 

Sampson, Charles E., 6, 53. 

Sancroft, William, Archbishop of 
Canterbury, 44. 

Santa Cruz, 104. 

Savory and Son, decorators, 72. 

Scripture lesson read in Commemo- 
ration Services, 76. 

Sears, Philip H., 64. 

Sears, Richard, 66. 

Second Church, the, 20, 82. 

Seven Star Lane, 31. 

Sewall, Capt. Samuel, house of, 

31- 
Sewall, Rev. Joseph, 98. 



Sewall, Judge, diary of, quoted, 26, 
27. 29, 31. 3S, 40, 42, 43- 46, 47, 97 ; 
his watchfulness over backsliders, 
100. 

Sherlock, Thomas, Bishop of Lon- 
don, 178. • 

Shirley, Mrs. Frances, 133. 

Shirley, Gov. William, 63, 85, 174, 
177 ; arms of, 62 ; portrait of, 71. 

Shirley, Lieut -General William, 86. 

Shute, Gov. Samuel, 63 ; arms of, 62. 

Smith, Captain, 27. 

" Smith, Mr., the joyner," 38. 

Smith, Franklin, 151. 

Soldier's Monument referred to, 88, 
132. 

Southack, Cyprian, 173. 

Southampton, the Great Emigration 
sails from, 35. 

South Meeting-house, 50,86; appro- 
priation of, 46, 83, 100, 106; dese- 
cration of, loi, 106. 

Smybert, artist, 70, 84. 

Sprat, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, 
44. 

Stanwood, Lemuel, 66. 

State House, portrait loaned from, 70. 

Stevenson, Hon. Joshua Thomas, 
tribute to, 137. 

Stevenson, Robert H., 64. 

Storers, the family of, 129. 

Stoughton, Lieut.-Gov.William,27,29. 

" St. Lawrence," disaster of the, 81. 

St. Martyn's, tune, 18. 

St. Mary, tune, 18. 

St. Paul's day. 47. 

St. Thomas, hymn sung to tune of, 

95- 
Stuart, James, King, 81. 
Subscription to build the first King's 

Chapel, 42. 
Sullivan, Rev. Thomas Russell, 151. 
Sullivan, Arthur S., anthem by, sung, 

61. 
Sullivan, Hon. William, LL.D., 128, 

151 ; tribute to, 150. 
Summer Street, 31. 
Sumner, Hon. Charles, LL.D., funeral 

of, 157- 
Swett, Col. Samuel, 153. 



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Tallis's Ev.ening Hymn, hymn sung 

to tune of, 60, 127. 
Taylor, Jeremy, Bishop of Down and 

Connor, 124, 178. 
Taylor, N. H., Mayor's Secretary, 

letter from, 145. 
Templeman, John, 175. 
Thayer, Thatcher, D.D.,4, 74; letter 

from, 153. 
Thayer, Rev. Geo. A.,letterfrom,i62. 
Third Church, 20, 31, 82. 
Thomas, William, 135, 151. 
Tillotson, John, Archbishop of Can- 
terbury, 17S. 
Tours, B., Magnificat in F. sung, 60. 
Town House, the old, of Boston, 
26, 30, 63 ; east end of, granted 
for public worship, 29 ; worship in, 
by countenance of authority, 32 ; 
library-room in, 38, 39. 
Trecothick, Barlow, Lord Mayor of 

London, 175. 
Trinity Church, 63, 85; the rector 
of, 60, 74 ; introduction of rector 
of. III; corner-stone laid, 112. 
Troutbeck, Rev. John, 64, 85. 
Truman, Edward, artist, 70. 
Tufts, John W., 66, 74. 
Tufts, Rev. John, 59. 
Turnbull, Charles D., 66. 
Two hundredth year of church life, 

plan for commemoration of, 4. 
Tj ng. Gen. Edward, 29. 

Unitarian movement in America, 
King's Chapel's part in, 158. 

Vane, Sir Henry, house of, 31. 
Vassall monument, 132, 133. 
Vassal!, the family of, 174. 
Vincent, Ambrose, 175. 
Vinton, Alex. H., D.D., sermon at 

consecration of Trinity Church, 

quoted, 177. 

Walker, James, D.D., LL.D., 128; 

cup and salver of, 65. 
Want, George W., 66. 
Wardens and vestry of King's 

Chapel, action of, 3 ; list of, 64. 



Ware, Rev. Loammi G., letter from, 

161. 
Warren, Gen. Joseph, 63, 86, 87. 
Warren, Sir Peter, 85. 
Washington, George, 177. 
Waterston, Rev. Robert C, letter 

from, 162. 
Webster, Hon. Daniel, LL.D., 177. 
Wedding-ring, first used in marriage 

ceremony in New England, 28. 
Wesley, Rev. Charles, 179. 
West, Benjamin, artist, 85. 
West, Governor, 27. 
Wharton, Mr., 27, 29. 
Wheelwright, Arthur W., 66. 
Wheelwright, John W., 64. 
White, Rt. Rev. William, D.D., 102. 
Whitefield, Rev. George, 179. 
Whiting, Miss Harriet A., 66. 
Whitney, EUerton P., 66. 
Wilder, Col. Marshall P., letter from, 

147. 
Willard, Rev. Joseph, 26, 46, 82. 
William and Mary, charter of, 45; 
King and Queen, give communion 
plate, 65. 
William HL, King, 178. 
Williams, Rev. Theodore C, letter 

from, 163. 
Williams, Rev. Roger, 36; quoted, 

16, 20. 
Wilson, Rev. John, 19, 82. 
Wilson, W. Power, 66. 
Winchester, tune, 57, 79 
Windsor, tune, 18. 
Winthrop, Captain Wait, 27. 
Winthrop, Gov. Fitz John, 29. 
Winthrop, Gov. John, 19. 
Winthrop, Hon. Robert C, LL D., 

D.C.L., letter from, 146. 
Winthrop, Major-Gen. Wait, 29. 
Wolcott, Roger, 6, 53, 64, 73. 
Woman's Rights, the earliest repre- 
sentative of, 20. 
Worshipful church, influence of a, 

140. 
Wright, Rev. William Burnet, letter 
from, 163. 

York, tune, 18, 59, 108. 



